gord

See also: GORD, Gord, and горд

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔː(ɹ)d/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d

Etymology 1

Perhaps hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.

Alternative forms

Noun

gord (plural gords)

  1. (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

Noun

gord (plural gords)

  1. (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gord in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

From Latin gurdus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gord (feminine gorda, masculine plural gords, feminine plural gordes)

  1. (Valencia, Eivissa) fat
    Synonym: gras
  2. stale, old, dry
    Synonyms: dur, sec

Derived terms

Further reading


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

gord

  1. first-person singular present indicative of gorden
  2. imperative of gorden

French

Etymology

From Gaulish *gorton ‘hedge, enclosure’; cf. Irish gort, Cornish gorth, Welsh garth.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔʁ/

Noun

gord m (plural gords)

  1. crawl, a stake enclosure at a body of water to catch fish

Further reading


Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

From Portuguese gordo (fat), from Old Portuguese gordo, from Latin gurdus.

Adjective

gord

  1. (Diu) fat (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one’s body)
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:
      Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gъrdъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡôːrd/

Adjective

gȏrd (definite gȏrdī, comparative gordiji, Cyrillic spelling го̑рд)

  1. proud
  2. arrogant

Declension

Derived terms

See also

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