--- title: G — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 3 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/3/) [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 3 [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/) · [E](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/E/) · [F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/F/) · [G](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) · [H](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/H/) · [I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) · [J](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/J/) · [K](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/K/) · [L](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/L/) · [M](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/M/) · [N](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/N/) · [O](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/O/) · [P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) · [Q](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Q/) · [R](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/R/) · [S](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) · [T](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/T/) · [U](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/U/) · [V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/V/) · [W](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/W/) · [X](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/X/) · [Y](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Y/) · [Z](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/Z/) [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/2/) **3** [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/4/) … [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/33/) **gambol** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To gambol is to skip, jump and play about happily, like a lamb or kitten.[↗](../../gambol/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A gambol is a playful leap or jump (noun).[↗](../../gambol/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The lambs gambolled in the field.[↗](../../gambol/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The puppy gambolled round the garden.[↗](../../gambol/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The children gambolled on the sand.[↗](../../gambol/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder My heritage, because ye gambol as a heifer at grass, and neigh as strong horses; (Prophets JER.50.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gambol/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · But unto you that fear My name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings; and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves of the stall.[↗](../../gambol/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets MAL.3.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gambol/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **game** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A game is something you play for fun with rules, like football, chess or tag.[↗](../../game/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A game is one match: «We won the game 3–1».[↗](../../game/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Games can mean a big sports event: the Olympic Games.[↗](../../game/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Game is wild animals hunted for food.[↗](../../game/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To be game is to be willing to try.[↗](../../game/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The team played 22 games.[↗](../../game/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · They won 12 games.[↗](../../game/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He has 15 video games.[↗](../../game/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She scored 18 points in the game.[↗](../../game/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Let's play a board game.[↗](../../game/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We played a maths game in class.[↗](../../game/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · It's only a game, so be a good loser.[↗](../../game/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Are you game for a swim?[↗](../../game/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Suddenly he tried the guessing game.[↗](../../game/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **gamekeeper** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gamekeeper is a person whose job is to look after wild animals and birds kept for hunting on a large estate.[↗](../../gamekeeper/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gamekeeper walked his dogs through the woods.[↗](../../gamekeeper/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The gamekeeper caught the poacher.[↗](../../gamekeeper/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The lord hired a new gamekeeper.[↗](../../gamekeeper/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **gamma** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, written γ (small) and Γ (capital), after alpha and beta.[↗](../../gamma/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science) Gamma rays are very powerful, invisible rays given off by radioactive materials and by explosions in space; they can harm living things.[↗](../../gamma/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Gamma is used as a label for the third thing in a list, after alpha and beta.[↗](../../gamma/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet.[↗](../../gamma/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Alpha, beta, gamma, delta.[↗](../../gamma/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gamma rays are stronger than X-rays.[↗](../../gamma/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Hospitals use gamma rays to kill germs on equipment.[↗](../../gamma/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the comic, the hero was hit by gamma rays.[↗](../../gamma/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We labelled the third angle gamma.[↗](../../gamma/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Thick lead blocks stop gamma rays.[↗](../../gamma/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Gamma rays come from exploding stars.[↗](../../gamma/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gamut** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* the whole range of something, from one end to the other.[↗](../../gamut/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") **gander** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* An adult male goose.[↗](../../gander/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, UK, Australia) A quick look: have a gander at this.[↗](../../gander/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gander hissed and chased us away from the goslings.[↗](../../gander/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A goose lays the eggs, and the gander guards the nest.[↗](../../gander/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Come and have a gander at my new bike\![↗](../../gander/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum took a gander at the menu and ordered chips.[↗](../../gander/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer keeps one gander and six geese.[↗](../../gander/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «What's good for the goose is good for the gander,» said Dad, so I could stay up late too.[↗](../../gander/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Have a gander out the window, it's snowing\![↗](../../gander/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · He was thinking these thoughts, when two young ganders caught sight of him as they were having their evening splash among the reeds, looking for their supper.[↗](../../gander/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gang** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gang is a group of friends who spend time together.[↗](../../gang/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A gang is a group of criminals or of young people who cause trouble or fights.[↗](../../gang/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A gang is a group of workers doing a job together.[↗](../../gang/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To gang up on someone is to join together against one person.[↗](../../gang/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* In Scottish speech, gang means to go.[↗](../../gang/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The whole gang came to my birthday party.[↗](../../gang/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A gang of robbers stole the jewels.[↗](../../gang/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · It's not fair to gang up on one person.[↗](../../gang/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The gang built a den in the woods.[↗](../../gang/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A gang of workers repaired the railway.[↗](../../gang/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The police arrested the gang leader.[↗](../../gang/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · If older kids pressure you to join a gang, tell a trusted adult.[↗](../../gang/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gangster** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gangster is a member of a gang of violent criminals who break the law to get money or power.[↗](../../gangster/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (slang) Gangster, or «gangsta», is sometimes used by young people to mean someone who acts tough or cool.[↗](../../gangster/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The police arrested the gangster at the airport.[↗](../../gangster/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The film is about a gangster in old Chicago.[↗](../../gangster/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The gangsters hid the stolen money in a warehouse.[↗](../../gangster/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother thinks he looks like a gangster in his sunglasses.[↗](../../gangster/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (slang, joking)[↗](../../gangster/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Gangsters often threaten shopkeepers for money.[↗](../../gangster/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The detective finally caught the gangster boss.[↗](../../gangster/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Real gangsters are dangerous, not glamorous.[↗](../../gangster/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gangway** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A movable bridge or ramp for walking between a ship and the land.[↗](../../gangway/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK) A passage between rows of seats, in a theatre, bus or plane; in the US an aisle.[↗](../../gangway/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (interjection, informal) «Gangway!» means «Move out of the way, I'm coming through!».[↗](../../gangway/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The passengers walked up the gangway onto the ship.[↗](../../gangway/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Please keep the gangways clear.[↗](../../gangway/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · «Gangway!» shouted the porter, pushing a trolley of bags.[↗](../../gangway/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The sailors pulled up the gangway and the ship set sail.[↗](../../gangway/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Sea Rat strode down the gangway into the port.[↗](../../gangway/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't leave your bag in the gangway on the bus.[↗](../../gangway/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gannet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A large white seabird with black wing tips and a yellowish head that dives from high up into the sea to catch fish.[↗](../../gannet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK, informal) A greedy person who eats a lot, very fast.[↗](../../gannet/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A gannet can dive into the sea at almost 100 kilometres per hour.[↗](../../gannet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Thousands of gannets nest on Bass Rock in Scotland.[↗](../../gannet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We watched gannets plunge into the waves to catch mackerel.[↗](../../gannet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · You ate all the biscuits, you gannet\![↗](../../gannet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My brother is a real gannet at birthday parties.[↗](../../gannet/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · New Zealand has a big gannet colony at Cape Kidnappers.[↗](../../gannet/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The gannet's air sacs protect it when it hits the water.[↗](../../gannet/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **gaol** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (UK, old spelling) A prison; a jail.[↗](../../gaol/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To put someone in prison.[↗](../../gaol/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Toad was thrown into gaol.[↗](../../gaol/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The old gaol is now a museum.[↗](../../gaol/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He was gaoled for stealing horses.[↗](../../gaol/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The gaoler locked the gaol at night.[↗](../../gaol/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In the past, people could be sent to gaol for owing money.[↗](../../gaol/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We visited the Old Melbourne Gaol on a school trip.[↗](../../gaol/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **gaoler** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (UK, old spelling) A person whose job is to guard prisoners in a prison; a jailer or prison officer.[↗](../../gaoler/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The old gaoler jangled his keys outside Toad's cell.[↗](../../gaoler/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The gaoler's daughter brought Toad hot buttered toast and tea.[↗](../../gaoler/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The gaoler locked the heavy door and walked away.[↗](../../gaoler/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Long ago the gaoler lived in a small house beside the gaol.[↗](../../gaoler/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gaoler counted the prisoners every evening.[↗](../../gaoler/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, the gaoler never noticed that Toad had gone.[↗](../../gaoler/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The gaoler of the castle was a grumpy man with a lantern.[↗](../../gaoler/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Luckily her gaoler was away, always trying to catch the stud of mares, so for the moment she was free and alone.[↗](../../gaoler/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gap** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gap is an empty space or opening between two things: a gap in a fence, a gap between your teeth.[↗](../../gap/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A gap is a difference between two amounts or groups: «the gap between the scores».[↗](../../gap/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A gap is a time when something stops: «a gap of two weeks».[↗](../../gap/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A gap in what you know is a part you have not learned yet.[↗](../../gap/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There are 4 gaps between 5 trees.[↗](../../gap/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each gap is 3 metres.[↗](../../gap/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The gap between the two scores is 12 points.[↗](../../gap/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How many gaps are in a fence with 8 posts?[↗](../../gap/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The dog got out through a gap in the fence.[↗](../../gap/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Mind the gap» means watch the space between the train and the platform.[↗](../../gap/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Fill the gaps in the sentences with the right words.[↗](../../gap/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She has a gap where her front tooth fell out.[↗](../../gap/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek scornfully; they gather themselves together against me.[↗](../../gap/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.16.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../gap/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **gape** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To stare with your mouth wide open, because you are surprised or amazed.[↗](../../gape/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To be or become wide open: a hole gaped in the wall.[↗](../../gape/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (noun) A wide-open mouth or a wide opening; in birds, the width of the open beak.[↗](../../gape/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We gaped at the giant whale skeleton in the museum.[↗](../../gape/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The children gaped when the magician vanished.[↗](../../gape/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A huge hole gaped in the road after the flood.[↗](../../gape/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't just stand there gaping, help me\![↗](../../gape/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby birds gaped, waiting for worms.[↗](../../gape/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A snake's gape lets it swallow an egg whole.[↗](../../gape/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · There was a gaping hole in the fence where the cow got out.[↗](../../gape/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The gape of his enormous jaws was nearly as wide as the gateway of the king's palace.[↗](../../gape/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **gar** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gar is a long, thin fish with a narrow snout full of sharp teeth, such as the North American gar of rivers and lakes.[↗](../../gar/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In the UK and Australia, «garfish» is a long thin sea fish with a beak-like jaw.[↗](../../gar/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* «gar» is also a short piece of words like «garden» or «cigar».[↗](../../gar/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The alligator gar has a mouth like a crocodile.[↗](../../gar/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A gar can breathe air at the surface.[↗](../../gar/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Gars have tough, armour-like scales.[↗](../../gar/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · We saw a garfish in the harbour.[↗](../../gar/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gar waited still among the weeds.[↗](../../gar/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some gars grow longer than a grown-up.[↗](../../gar/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **garage** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A garage is a building or a room next to a house where a car is kept.[↗](../../garage/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A garage is also a place where cars are fixed, and in the UK and Ireland a place that sells petrol.[↗](../../garage/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A parking garage is a big building with levels where many cars park.[↗](../../garage/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A garage sale is when a family sells old things in front of their home.[↗](../../garage/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The garage holds 2 cars.[↗](../../garage/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A parking garage has 5 levels with 40 cars on each.[↗](../../garage/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · They sold toys at a garage sale for 1 dollar each.[↗](../../garage/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The garage is 6 metres long.[↗](../../garage/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad keeps our bikes in the garage.[↗](../../garage/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum took the car to the garage because it made a funny noise.[↗](../../garage/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Close the garage door when you leave.[↗](../../garage/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We stopped at a garage to fill up with petrol.[↗](../../garage/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **garb** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Garb is clothing, especially a particular kind or style of dress.[↗](../../garb/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (formal) Garb can mean the outward look of something, as in «spring garb».[↗](../../garb/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She wore her red garb for the festival.[↗](../../garb/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The soldiers were dressed in dark garb.[↗](../../garb/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The trees put on their spring garb.[↗](../../garb/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **garbage** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (mainly US, Canada) Rubbish; food waste and other things you throw away.[↗](../../garbage/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Nonsense; things that are untrue or very bad.[↗](../../garbage/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* That film was garbage.[↗](../../garbage/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (computers) Useless or meaningless data.[↗](../../garbage/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It's your turn to take out the garbage.[↗](../../garbage/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The garbage truck comes on Tuesdays.[↗](../../garbage/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Put the banana peel in the garbage.[↗](../../garbage/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't talk garbage — of course you can do it\![↗](../../garbage/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We sorted the garbage into paper, plastic and food.[↗](../../garbage/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A family throws away about 20 kg of garbage a week.[↗](../../garbage/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **garden** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A garden is a piece of land where people grow flowers, fruit or vegetables.[↗](../../garden/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand the garden is also the grass area around a house; Americans often call it the yard.[↗](../../garden/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Gardens are also a public park with plants, like botanical gardens.[↗](../../garden/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To garden is to work in a garden, planting, weeding and watering.[↗](../../garden/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The garden has 6 rows of 8 tomato plants.[↗](../../garden/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A garden is 10 m long and 4 m wide.[↗](../../garden/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She picked 25 carrots from her garden.[↗](../../garden/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How much fence goes around the garden?[↗](../../garden/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school has a garden where we grow beans.[↗](../../garden/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa loves gardening on Saturdays.[↗](../../garden/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The kids played football in the back garden.[↗](../../garden/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · We visited the botanic gardens and saw huge cactuses.[↗](../../garden/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; (Torah GEN.2.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../garden/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; (Torah GEN.3.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../garden/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed.[↗](../../garden/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.2.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../garden/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.[↗](../../garden/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.4.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../garden/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.[↗](../../garden/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.8.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../garden/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.[↗](../../garden/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.4.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../garden/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **gardener** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A gardener is a person who looks after a garden and its plants, as a job or for fun.[↗](../../gardener/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The gardener plants 6 rows of 9 roses.[↗](../../gardener/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 3 gardeners mow the lawn.[↗](../../gardener/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The gardener picks 40 apples.[↗](../../gardener/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each gardener earns $50 a day.[↗](../../gardener/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The gardener pulled up the weeds.[↗](../../gardener/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa is a keen gardener and grows his own tomatoes.[↗](../../gardener/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The gardener waters the plants every evening.[↗](../../gardener/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, an old gardener kept the key to the secret garden.[↗](../../gardener/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · "What do you mean?" asked the gardener.[↗](../../gardener/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **garfish** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A long, thin fish with a narrow beak-like jaw full of sharp teeth.[↗](../../garfish/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (Australia, New Zealand) A similar slim fish called a halfbeak, popular for eating and fishing.[↗](../../garfish/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A garfish has a long pointed beak.[↗](../../garfish/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The garfish swam fast near the surface.[↗](../../garfish/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We caught garfish off the jetty in Adelaide.[↗](../../garfish/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Garfish have green bones, which surprises people.[↗](../../garfish/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The fisherman sold fresh garfish at the market.[↗](../../garfish/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A shoal of garfish flashed in the sunlight.[↗](../../garfish/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/2/) **3** [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/4/) … [33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/33/) - ← previous: [page 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/2/) - next →: [page 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/G/page/4/) - ↑ back to [The English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/)