--- title: G — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 10 description: The 650 words of the English dictionary under G, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / G # G — The English dictionary · page 10 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* A gibbon is a small ape with very long arms and no tail that lives in the rainforests of Southeast Asia and swings quickly from branch to branch through the trees.[↗](../../gibbon/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gibbon swung from branch to branch at high speed.[↗](../../gibbon/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Gibbons sing loud songs every morning.[↗](../../gibbon/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A gibbon's arms are longer than its legs.[↗](../../gibbon/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Gibbons do not have tails.[↗](../../gibbon/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gibbon pair sang together to tell others to keep away.[↗](../../gibbon/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Gibbons live in the forests of Southeast Asia.[↗](../../gibbon/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Many kinds of gibbons are in danger because of logging.[↗](../../gibbon/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · At the zoo we watched the gibbons swinging on ropes.[↗](../../gibbon/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gibbous** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gibbous moon is more than half lit but not yet full, so it looks like a bulging circle.[↗](../../gibbous/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Tonight the moon is gibbous.[↗](../../gibbous/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A waxing gibbous moon is getting bigger each night.[↗](../../gibbous/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After the full moon comes the waning gibbous moon.[↗](../../gibbous/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Draw the eight phases of the moon, including the gibbous ones.[↗](../../gibbous/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gibbous moon lit up the garden.[↗](../../gibbous/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A gibbous moon is more than half but less than full.[↗](../../gibbous/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gibe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gibe is a mocking remark, meant to hurt someone's feelings or make them look foolish.[↗](../../gibe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He ignored the gibes of the other boys.[↗](../../gibe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Her cruel gibes made him cry.[↗](../../gibe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The king laughed at the gibe.[↗](../../gibe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **giddily** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Giddily means in a dizzy, wild or silly way, as if one's head is spinning.[↗](../../giddily/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The children spun giddily on the grass.[↗](../../giddily/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The donkey pranced giddily round the table.[↗](../../giddily/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She laughed giddily and fell over.[↗](../../giddily/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **giddy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Feeling that everything is spinning and you might fall; dizzy.[↗](../../giddy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* So happy and excited that you feel silly and cannot keep calm.[↗](../../giddy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old-fashioned) Silly and not serious: «a giddy girl».[↗](../../giddy/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Making you dizzy: «a giddy height».[↗](../../giddy/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I felt giddy after spinning round and round.[↗](../../giddy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We were giddy with excitement on the last day of school.[↗](../../giddy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Looking down from the tower made me giddy.[↗](../../giddy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing,» said Alice, feeling giddy.[↗](../../giddy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Sit down if you feel giddy.[↗](../../giddy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «My giddy aunt!» cried Gran when she saw the mess.[↗](../../giddy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Jack was a giddy, thoughtless boy, but very kind-hearted and affectionate.[↗](../../giddy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gift** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gift is something you give to someone without asking for money, like a present for a birthday.[↗](../../gift/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A gift is also a special talent you are born with, like a gift for music.[↗](../../gift/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To gift something is to give it as a present.[↗](../../gift/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Gifted means very clever or talented.[↗](../../gift/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She bought 4 gifts for 5 dollars each.[↗](../../gift/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Tom wraps 12 gifts.[↗](../../gift/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each gift needs 2 metres of ribbon.[↗](../../gift/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He got 3 gifts from his aunt.[↗](../../gift/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I wrote a thank-you card for every gift.[↗](../../gift/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Maya has a gift for drawing animals.[↗](../../gift/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The museum gift shop sells postcards.[↗](../../gift/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The fairy gave the princess three gifts.[↗](../../gift/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The gift of laughing was given to man alone.[↗](../../gift/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Of the first of your dough ye shall give unto the LORD a portion for a gift throughout your generations.[↗](../../gift/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah NUM.15.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gift/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth them that have sight, and perverteth the words of the righteous.[↗](../../gift/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.23.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gift/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me; but give me the damsel to wife.'[↗](../../gift/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.34.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gift/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.[↗](../../gift/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.18.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gift/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a present in the bosom strong wrath.[↗](../../gift/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.21.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gift/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · The king by justice establisheth the land; but he that exacteth gifts overthroweth it.[↗](../../gift/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.29.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gift/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **gig** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) A live music show or performance by a band or comedian.[↗](../../gig/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* We went to a gig.[↗](../../gig/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) A job, especially a short or one-off one: a summer gig.[↗](../../gig/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) Short for gigabyte: a 64-gig phone.[↗](../../gig/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (old) A light two-wheeled carriage pulled by one horse.[↗](../../gig/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (verb, informal) To play live music shows.[↗](../../gig/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My brother's band is playing its first gig on Friday.[↗](../../gig/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We went to a gig at the town hall.[↗](../../gig/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum got a gig painting a mural.[↗](../../gig/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · This tablet has 128 gigs of storage.[↗](../../gig/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The comedian had a gig in Dublin.[↗](../../gig/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old story, the doctor drove a pony and gig.[↗](../../gig/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gigantic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gigantic means extremely big, like a giant.[↗](../../gigantic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A gigantic wave crashed onto the beach.[↗](../../gigantic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The blue whale is a gigantic animal.[↗](../../gigantic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We saw gigantic footprints in the mud.[↗](../../gigantic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad made a gigantic pile of pancakes.[↗](../../gigantic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The giant lived in a gigantic castle.[↗](../../gigantic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Jupiter is a gigantic planet.[↗](../../gigantic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Some dinosaurs were gigantic, but others were as small as chickens.[↗](../../gigantic/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · One day a Rakshasa appears in the form of a gigantic crane.[↗](../../gigantic/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gigantism** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (medicine) A rare condition in which a child grows far taller than usual, usually because a gland in the brain makes too much growth hormone.[↗](../../gigantism/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Being very large in size, for example animals or plants that are much bigger than their relatives (island gigantism).[↗](../../gigantism/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Robert Wadlow, the tallest man ever recorded, had gigantism.[↗](../../gigantism/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Gigantism is caused by too much growth hormone in childhood.[↗](../../gigantism/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors can treat gigantism if they find it early.[↗](../../gigantism/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The giant tortoises of the Galapagos are an example of island gigantism.[↗](../../gigantism/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Some dinosaurs show a kind of gigantism.[↗](../../gigantism/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The giant weta of New Zealand is a famous case of gigantism in insects.[↗](../../gigantism/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **giggle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To laugh in a quick, high, silly way, often because something is funny or because you are nervous or shy.[↗](../../giggle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A laugh like that.[↗](../../giggle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (the giggles) A time when you cannot stop giggling.[↗](../../giggle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (UK informal, a giggle) Something fun: «It was a good giggle».[↗](../../giggle/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The babies giggled when I made funny faces.[↗](../../giggle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We got the giggles during assembly and couldn't stop.[↗](../../giggle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave a nervous giggle.[↗](../../giggle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Please stop giggling and get on with your work.[↗](../../giggle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The jokes made everyone giggle.[↗](../../giggle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · They were giggling about a secret.[↗](../../giggle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Tickling makes my sister giggle.[↗](../../giggle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And the reporters giggled, and each dropped a blot of ink on the floor.[↗](../../giggle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gilbert** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (a name) A boy's or man's first name, or a surname.[↗](../../gilbert/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science, rare) An old unit used to measure magnetic force.[↗](../../gilbert/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Gilbert Blythe teased Anne in «Anne of Green Gables».[↗](../../gilbert/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My great-grandad was called Gilbert.[↗](../../gilbert/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gilbert and Sullivan wrote funny songs and operas.[↗](../../gilbert/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Gilbert Islands are in the Pacific Ocean.[↗](../../gilbert/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Gilbert is in my class this year.[↗](../../gilbert/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Sir Hum-phrey Gilbert was one of the first men who tried to make a set-tle-ment in A-mer-i-ca.[↗](../../gilbert/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gilded** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Covered with a thin layer of gold or gold-coloured paint.[↗](../../gilded/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Looking rich and fancy, sometimes only on the outside: a gilded life.[↗](../../gilded/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (phrase) «A gilded cage» means a comfortable, rich life where you are not free.[↗](../../gilded/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The portrait hung in a gilded frame.[↗](../../gilded/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The palace had gilded ceilings and huge mirrors.[↗](../../gilded/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The princess lived in a gilded cage and longed to go outside.[↗](../../gilded/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The church dome is gilded and shines in the sun.[↗](../../gilded/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Autumn leaves gilded the park with gold.[↗](../../gilded/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The Gilded Age was a time of millionaires and factories in America.[↗](../../gilded/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The youngest saw the gilded star, and ran and pulled it off the tree.[↗](../../gilded/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gilding** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gilding is a thin layer of gold, or of a gold-coloured paint, put on the surface of something to make it shine.[↗](../../gilding/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gilding on the frame had faded.[↗](../../gilding/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Under the gilding, the box was only wood.[↗](../../gilding/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The king's chair had a bright gilding.[↗](../../gilding/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **gill** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gills are the body parts that fish and some other water animals use to breathe; they take oxygen from the water.[↗](../../gill/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Gills are also the thin lines under the cap of a mushroom.[↗](../../gill/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old, informal) Gills can also mean a person's cheeks or face, as in "pale to the gills", meaning very pale with fear.[↗](../../gill/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Fish breathe through their gills.[↗](../../gill/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Tadpoles have gills, but frogs have lungs.[↗](../../gill/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The shark's gills look like slits.[↗](../../gill/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Whales do not have gills.[↗](../../gill/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Look at the gills under the mushroom cap.[↗](../../gill/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Water flows over the gills to give oxygen.[↗](../../gill/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · After the boat ride he looked green around the gills.[↗](../../gill/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A fish out of water cannot breathe with its gills.[↗](../../gill/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · In that supreme moment Hook did not blanch, even at the gills, but Smee and Starkey clung to each other in terror.[↗](../../gill/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **gillie** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old use) A gillie was a male servant who helped a hunter or fisherman, especially in Scotland.[↗](../../gillie/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gillies led the horses to the river.[↗](../../gillie/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The king sent his gillies to find the lost dog.[↗](../../gillie/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Two gillies carried the hunter's bag.[↗](../../gillie/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **gilt** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gilt means covered with a thin layer of gold or gold colour.[↗](../../gilt/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She wore gilt shoes to the ball.[↗](../../gilt/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The gilt frame hung on the wall.[↗](../../gilt/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The horse had a silver-gilt bridle.[↗](../../gilt/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **gimlet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gimlet is a small hand tool with a sharp, twisted point, used for boring small holes in wood.[↗](../../gimlet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The carpenter bored a hole with his gimlet.[↗](../../gimlet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I need a gimlet to start the screw.[↗](../../gimlet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The rabbit fetched a gimlet from the cupboard.[↗](../../gimlet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **gin** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gin is a strong, clear alcoholic drink flavoured with juniper berries; it is for adults only.[↗](../../gin/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fibres from the seeds.[↗](../../gin/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old) A gin is a trap or snare for catching animals.[↗](../../gin/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Gin, or gin rummy, is a card game.[↗](../../gin/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Gin is an alcoholic drink for grown-ups.[↗](../../gin/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma had a gin and tonic at the party.[↗](../../gin/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Eli Whitney's cotton gin cleaned cotton much faster than people could by hand.[↗](../../gin/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cotton gin changed farming in the American South.[↗](../../gin/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We played gin rummy on the rainy holiday.[↗](../../gin/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the old story, the rabbit was caught in a gin.[↗](../../gin/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Alcohol like gin is not safe for children.[↗](../../gin/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.[↗](../../gin/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.18.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gin/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the gins of the workers of iniquity.[↗](../../gin/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.141.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gin/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me.[↗](../../gin/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.140.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gin/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **ginger** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A plant root with a hot, spicy taste, used in cooking and drinks: ginger biscuits.[↗](../../ginger/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (adjective) Orange-brown in colour, especially hair or a cat's fur: a ginger cat.[↗](../../ginger/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal, UK, sometimes unkind) A person with red or orange hair.[↗](../../ginger/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* «ginger beer», «ginger ale» = fizzy drinks made with ginger.[↗](../../ginger/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We made a gingerbread man with raisin eyes.[↗](../../ginger/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ginger tea helps when you feel sick.[↗](../../ginger/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Our ginger cat sleeps on the windowsill.[↗](../../ginger/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Ginger biscuits are good for dunking in tea.[↗](../../ginger/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grate a little fresh ginger into the soup.[↗](../../ginger/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · He has ginger hair and freckles.[↗](../../ginger/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Costly spices grew on the shores: the pepper plant, the cinnamon tree, ginger, saffron; the coffee plant and the tea plant.[↗](../../ginger/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gingerbread** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sweet, spicy cake or biscuit flavoured with ginger, often with treacle or golden syrup.[↗](../../gingerbread/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A biscuit cut into a shape, especially a person (a gingerbread man), often decorated with icing.[↗](../../gingerbread/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old use) Fancy carved decoration on a building, as in a «gingerbread house» style.[↗](../../gingerbread/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We baked gingerbread men for the class party.[↗](../../gingerbread/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · «Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!»[↗](../../gingerbread/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The witch's house was made of gingerbread.[↗](../../gingerbread/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The kitchen smelled of warm gingerbread.[↗](../../gingerbread/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We decorated a gingerbread house at Christmas.[↗](../../gingerbread/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · If 12 gingerbread men are shared between 4 children, each gets 3.[↗](../../gingerbread/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The carriage was lined inside with sugar-plums, and in the seats were fruits and gingerbread.[↗](../../gingerbread/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gingerly** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very carefully and slowly, because you are afraid of hurting yourself or breaking something, or of what might happen.[↗](../../gingerly/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She stepped gingerly onto the frozen pond.[↗](../../gingerly/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He touched his bruised knee gingerly.[↗](../../gingerly/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mole climbed gingerly into the boat.[↗](../../gingerly/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Alice picked up the bottle gingerly.[↗](../../gingerly/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The vet lifted the hurt puppy gingerly.[↗](../../gingerly/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We walked gingerly across the wobbly bridge.[↗](../../gingerly/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He gingerly opened the box to see what was inside.[↗](../../gingerly/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He held it gingerly for a few moments.[↗](../../gingerly/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gingham** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gingham is a cotton cloth woven in a pattern of checks or stripes, often blue and white.[↗](../../gingham/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She wore a blue gingham dress.[↗](../../gingham/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The tablecloth was white and red gingham.[↗](../../gingham/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mother sewed a gingham apron.[↗](../../gingham/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **ginkgo** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A tall tree with fan-shaped leaves that turn bright yellow in autumn; it is called a living fossil because trees like it grew in the time of the dinosaurs.[↗](../../ginkgo/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A medicine or supplement made from its leaves (ginkgo biloba).[↗](../../ginkgo/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The ginkgo in the park turns golden yellow in autumn.[↗](../../ginkgo/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ginkgo leaves look like little fans.[↗](../../ginkgo/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Ginkgo trees were around when dinosaurs lived.[↗](../../ginkgo/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Some ginkgo trees survived the bomb in Hiroshima.[↗](../../ginkgo/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma takes ginkgo tablets, but you should only take medicine an adult gives you.[↗](../../ginkgo/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The seeds of a female ginkgo tree smell very bad.[↗](../../ginkgo/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gipsy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old, can be offensive) An old word for a member of the Romani people, who came to Europe from India long ago and many of whom lived and travelled in caravans.[↗](../../gipsy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In The Wind in the Willows, Toad sells the horse he has taken to a gipsy for six shillings and sixpence and a hot breakfast; Toad's caravan is a «gipsy caravan».[↗](../../gipsy/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Used in some names, like the gipsy moth.[↗](../../gipsy/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Toad sold the horse to a gipsy who was sitting by the road.[↗](../../gipsy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Toad's painted caravan was called a gipsy caravan.[↗](../../gipsy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Romani people came to Europe from India hundreds of years ago.[↗](../../gipsy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Today we say Roma or Travellers rather than gipsies.[↗](../../gipsy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gipsy made a stew in a pot over the fire.[↗](../../gipsy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The gipsy moth has hairy caterpillars.[↗](../../gipsy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Then up there came a gipsy, blind of one eye.[↗](../../gipsy/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) … [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/9/) **10** [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/11/) … [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/33/) - ← previous: [page 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/9/) - 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