📖 G — The English dictionary · page 2

galbanum — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: a sticky, strong-smelling resin from a plant, used in perfume and incense.↗ Example: And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.↗ (Torah EXO.30.34, JPS 1917)↗

gale — Everyday, meaning 1: A very strong wind, stronger than a breeze but weaker than a hurricane.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (gales of laughter) A sudden loud burst of laughing.↗ Example: A gale blew down our fence last night.↗ · There is a gale warning for the coast, so the ferries will not sail.↗ · It's blowing a gale outside!↗ · Gale-force winds tore the leaves off the trees.↗ · The class burst into gales of laughter.↗ · Ships stayed in the harbour during the gale.↗ · "At that time there was a gale blowing.↗

galician — Everyday, meaning 1: From Galicia, a region in the north-west of Spain, or about its people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (language) Galician, a language spoken in Galicia, close to Portuguese.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: From Galicia, a historic region now split between western Ukraine and south-east Poland, around Lviv and Kraków.↗ Example: Santiago de Compostela is a Galician city.↗ · Many people in Galicia speak Galician and Spanish.↗ · The Galician coast is rocky and green.↗ · Galician is close to Portuguese.↗ · Lviv was the chief city of Galicia in Austria-Hungary.↗ · Her great-grandparents were Galician farmers from near Lviv.↗ · Galician bagpipes are called gaitas.↗

gall — Everyday, meaning 1: Gall is rude, bold cheek: «He had the gall to ask for more after eating mine!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gall is a lump on a plant, such as an oak apple, made when an insect lays eggs in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Gall is bile, a bitter liquid from the liver; the gall bladder stores it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To gall someone is to annoy them a lot because it feels unfair.↗ Example: She had the gall to push in front of me.↗ · What gall!↗ He took my seat and asked for my pencil.↗ · We found round galls on the oak leaves.↗ · Old ink was made from oak galls.↗ · The gall bladder is near the liver.↗ · It galls me that he got the prize for my idea.↗ · Wasps cause galls to grow on plants.↗ · For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter; (Torah DEU.32.32, JPS 1917)↗ · Three foes: the liver and the gall and the tongue.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · The only of the latter four terms found in humans is מָרָה marah ‘gall(bladder), bile’.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Remember mine affliction and mine anguish, the wormwood and the gall.↗ (Writings LAM.3.19, JPS 1917)↗ · He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.↗ (Writings LAM.3.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Yet his food in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.↗ (Writings JOB.20.14, JPS 1917)↗

gallant — Everyday, meaning 1: Brave, especially in a fine, noble way: a gallant knight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of a man, old-fashioned) Very polite and kind to women.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old) Grand and splendid to look at: a gallant ship.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun, old) a fashionable young man.↗ Example: The gallant knight rode to save the village.↗ · The team made a gallant effort but lost.↗ · He held the door open in a gallant way.↗ · The four friends made a gallant charge into Toad Hall.↗ · The gallant soldiers did not run away.↗ · Toad imagined himself as a gallant hero.↗ · A gallant ship sailed into the harbour.↗ · But there the LORD will be with us in majesty, in a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.21, JPS 1917)↗

gallantly — Everyday, meaning 1: Gallantly means bravely and boldly, showing courage.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Gallantly means politely and kindly, as a brave knight behaves towards a lady.↗ Example: The boy gallantly saved the puppy from the river.↗ · The knight bowed gallantly to the princess.↗ · They fought gallantly against the dragon.↗

gallantry — Everyday, meaning 1: Great bravery, especially in battle or danger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Polite, kind behaviour from a man towards women, such as opening doors or offering a seat (old-fashioned).↗ Example: The firefighter got a medal for gallantry.↗ · The knight was famous for his gallantry in battle.↗ · Acts of gallantry during the war are remembered on Anzac Day.↗ · In the old novel, the captain showed gallantry by giving up his seat.↗ · The lifeboat crew's gallantry saved six sailors.↗ · The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award for gallantry.↗ · The ugly sister was dressed all in her best and was put up behind the prince on horseback, and off they rode in great gallantry.↗

galleon — Everyday, meaning 1: A galleon was a large sailing ship with several masts and decks, used long ago by Spain, England and other countries for war and trade.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Galleons carried gold, silver and goods across the oceans, so pirates often attacked them.↗ Example: The Spanish galleon was full of gold and silver.↗ · Pirates chased the slow galleon across the sea.↗ · A galleon had tall masts and many sails.↗ · Divers found the wreck of a sunken galleon.↗ · We built a model galleon out of cardboard.↗ · Galleons had cannons on their lower decks.↗ · The galleon sailed from Mexico to Spain.↗ · In the story, the treasure was hidden on a galleon.↗

gallery — Everyday, meaning 1: A building or room where paintings, sculptures and other art are shown.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A raised floor or balcony inside a large building, like a theatre or church, where people can sit or look down.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A long narrow room or passage.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (on a phone or computer) The place where your photos are kept.↗ Example: We visited the art gallery on our school trip.↗ · The gallery has paintings that are hundreds of years old.↗ · Our drawings are in the school gallery by the office.↗ · We sat in the gallery and looked down at the stage.↗ · The photo is in the gallery on my phone.↗ · Please don't touch the paintings in the gallery.↗ · The shooting gallery at the fair had wooden ducks.↗ · They entered a long gallery, where the boy had been before.↗ · Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.5, JPS 1917)↗ · over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits.↗ (Prophets EZK.41.15, JPS 1917)↗

galley — Everyday, meaning 1: A galley is the kitchen on a ship, boat or plane.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (history) A galley was a long ship moved mainly by many oars, often rowed by slaves or prisoners, used by ancient Greeks, Romans and in the Mediterranean.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (printing) A galley (or galley proof) is a long first printing of a text, used to check for mistakes.↗ Example: The cook made soup in the ship's galley.↗ · Roman galleys had rows of oars.↗ · Galley slaves rowed in chains.↗ · The flight attendant went to the galley to get drinks.↗ · The narrow galley on our boat had a tiny stove.↗ · Pirates attacked the galley near the coast.↗ · "Go to Argus, the shipbuilder, and bid him build a galley with fifty oars."↗ · But there the LORD will be with us in majesty, in a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.↗ (Prophets ISA.33.21, JPS 1917)↗

gallon — Everyday, meaning 1: A unit for measuring liquids.↗ A UK (imperial) gallon is about 4.55 litres; a US gallon is about 3.79 litres.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, plural) A very large amount, as in «gallons of tea».↗ Example: We bought a gallon of milk at the store.↗ · One gallon is 8 pints.↗ · The car does 40 miles per gallon.↗ · A bath holds about 20 gallons of water.↗ · If 1 gallon is 8 pints, then 3 gallons is 24 pints.↗ · He drank gallons of lemonade at the party.↗ · The fish tank holds ten gallons.↗ · There were about a hundred gallons of oil in this caldron, and the fire was burning beneath it.↗

gallop — Everyday, meaning 1: To gallop is to run very fast, the way a horse does, with all four feet off the ground at one moment.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A gallop is a horse's fastest way of running, or a ride at that speed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Gallop also means to do something very fast (informal).↗ Example: The horse galloped across the field.↗ · We went for a gallop on the beach.↗ · Children galloped around the hall like ponies.↗ · The knight galloped off to save the princess.↗ · The days galloped by during the holidays.↗ · At a gallop, a horse is very fast.↗

gallows — Everyday, meaning 1: A gallows is a wooden frame with a beam, used in the past to hang criminals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The gallows is the punishment of being hanged.↗ Example: The villain was led to the gallows.↗ · The judge sent the thief to the gallows.↗ · They built a gallows on the hill.↗ · So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.↗ (Writings EST.7.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Then said Esther: 'If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.'↗ (Writings EST.9.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.↗ (Writings EST.8.7, JPS 1917)↗

gallus — Everyday, meaning 1: (science) Gallus is the Latin scientific name for the group (genus) of jungle fowl that includes the chicken: the chicken is Gallus gallus domesticus.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Scotland, slang) Gallus means bold, cheeky and full of confidence, often in a fun, likeable way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (dialect, old) Galluses are braces, the straps that hold up trousers.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Gallus was the name of some Romans and of an early saint, Saint Gall.↗ Example: The chicken's scientific name is Gallus gallus domesticus.↗ · The red junglefowl, Gallus gallus, lives in the forests of Asia.↗ · (Scotland) That wee lad is pure gallus, he sang in front of the whole school.↗ · (Scotland) She gave the teacher a gallus grin.↗ · (dialect) Grandpa hitched up his galluses.↗ · Scientific names like Gallus are written in italics.↗

galosh — Everyday, meaning 1: A galosh is a rubber overshoe worn over a boot or shoe in wet weather.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use, in fairy tales) A galosh is a magic shoe that can carry the wearer far away.↗ Example: He pulled on his galoshes before splashing in the puddles.↗ · Her galoshes were bright yellow.↗ · In the tale, the magic galoshes carried him across the sky.↗

galvanise — Everyday, meaning 1: To galvanise people means to shock or excite them into acting quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To galvanise iron or steel means to coat it with zinc so that it does not rust.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science, old) To galvanise once meant to give something an electric shock, from the scientist Luigi Galvani.↗ Example: The fence posts are made of galvanised steel so they will not rust.↗ · Galvanising coats iron with a layer of zinc.↗ · The captain's speech galvanised the team.↗ · The flood galvanised the whole town into action.↗ · We tested whether a galvanised nail rusts in salty water.↗ · The coach hoped to galvanise the players at half-time.↗ · The farmer filled a galvanised bucket with water.↗

gamble — Everyday, meaning 1: To gamble is to bet money on a game, race or event, hoping to win more but risking losing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To gamble is to take a risk, hoping things turn out well.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A gamble is a risky action or choice.↗ Example: It was a gamble to leave without umbrellas, and we got wet.↗ · The captain took a gamble and it paid off.↗ · People who gamble usually lose more money than they win.↗ · She gambled on the weather staying sunny.↗ · Gambling is only for adults, by law.↗ · Some online games use tricks like gambling to get you to spend money.↗ · Was it a good gamble or a silly one?↗

gambler — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who plays games of chance for money, such as cards, betting or slot machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who takes big risks hoping to win something.↗ Example: The gambler lost all his money on one bet.↗ · Most gamblers lose more than they win.↗ · He's a bit of a gambler — he took a big risk with his business.↗ · In the story, the gambler bet his horse on a card game.↗ · A gambler bets $10 and loses; he has $10 less.↗ · Gambling can become a harmful habit.↗ · The luck was on his side, and soon the money of the other gamblers found its way from their pockets into his.↗

gambling — Everyday, meaning 1: Gambling is playing games or betting money on something whose result depends on luck, hoping to win more money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Gambling is also taking a big risk in the hope that things will turn out well.↗ Example: Gambling is not allowed for children.↗ · My uncle stopped gambling because he kept losing money.↗ · The film showed people gambling at a casino in Las Vegas.↗ · Buying lottery tickets every week is a kind of gambling.↗ · Some video games have loot boxes that feel a lot like gambling.↗ · In maths we learned why gambling usually loses money in the long run.↗ · Crossing the road without looking is gambling with your life.↗ · The coach said trying a new player in the final was gambling.↗ · While the tree was advancing, everything else at the castle was going backward, through feasting and gambling, for these are two rollers upon which nobody stands safely.↗