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GA
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abbreviation
  1. Georgia, a state of the United States of America.
  2. Genetic Algorithm, a search heuristic used in computer science.
  3. (netball) goal attack
  4. general aviation
Gabon
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proper noun
  1. Country in Western Africa. Official name: Gabonese Republic.
Gaborone
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proper noun
  1. The capital of Botswana.
Galicia
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proper noun (wikipedia, Galicia (Spain))
  1. A former Iberian kingdom, now an autonomous region of Spain
Galilee
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proper noun
  1. A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.
  2. The w:Sea of Galilee, Sea of Galilee.
Gambia
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proper noun
  1. A country in Western Africa. Official name: The Republic of The Gambia.
gander
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noun
  1. A male goose.
  2. (slang, used only with "have" and "take") A look.
Have a at what he"s written.
Ganges
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proper noun
  1. A sacred river of India and Bangladesh
Gangtok
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proper noun
  1. State capital of Sikkim (India).
GAO
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initialism
  1. Government Accountability Office (fka General Accounting Office)
Garfield
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proper noun
  1. An English surname, thought to be habitational
  2. w:James Garfield, James Garfield the 20th President of the United States (1831-1881)
  3. a comic strip character
Garland
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proper noun
  1. A large suburb of Dallas, Texas (USA)
Gary
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
Gateshead
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proper noun
  1. A town in the county of Tyne and Wear in north east England. Found upon the southern bank of the Tyne.
Gaza
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noun
  1. A city on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, formerly in Egypt.
  2. An coastal area between Israel and Egypt currently under the control of the Palestinian Authority.
Geelong
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proper noun
  1. A semi-rural city, 75km south-west of Melbourne, Australia. Gateway to the surfcoast of Victoria, and Great Ocean Road.
Gelderland
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proper noun
  1. A province of the Netherlands.
Gen.
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abbreviation (infl, en, abbreviation)
  1. (title) General
  2. (biblical) Book of Genesis
Geneva
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proper noun
  1. A city in Switzerland.
  2. A canton of Switzerland, having Geneva as its capital.
  3. Largest lake in Switzerland.
  4. (given name, female), from the place name or confused with Genevieve or Ginevra.
Genoa
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proper noun
  1. A province of Liguria, Italy.
  2. A city and the capital of the province of Genoa, and also the capital of Liguria.
  3. A placename.
gent
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noun
  1. short for gentleman
George
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
  2. (slang), (archaic) A coin with King George"s profile.
Take the Georges, Pew, and don"t stand here squalling. — Robert Louis Stevenson.
Georgetown
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proper noun
  1. The capital city of Guyana.
  2. A district in Washington, DC.
Georgia
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proper noun
  1. A country in West Asia or East Europe. Official name: Georgia. Capital: Tbilisi.
  2. A state of the United States of America. Capital: Atlanta.
  3. A female given name.
German Democratic Republic
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proper noun
  1. The official name of East Germany from 1949 until reunification in 1990.
Germany
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proper noun (countable and uncountable; plural Germanies)
  1. (uncountable) Country in Central Europe. Official name: Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland).
  2. (countable; hist. 1949-1990) Either of the German states, FRG and GDR. The two Germanies exchanged permanent representatives in 1974.
  3. (countable; hist. pre-1871) Any of the German states. Melton"s useful new book traces the explosion of public institutions in eighteenth-century England, France and the Germanies.
Ghana
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proper noun
  1. Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.
Ghent
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proper noun
  1. Capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.
Gibraltar
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proper noun
  1. A territory of Great Britain at the southern end of Iberia.
  2. A strait connecting the Mediterranean to the Atlantic between Gibraltar and Morocco.
Gladstone
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noun
  1. a Scottish habitational surname from the place in Lanarkshire
  2. any of several other places of the same name
  3. w:William Ewart Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone British Prime Minister
Glamorgan
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proper noun
  1. A traditional county of Wales
Glarus
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proper noun
  1. A canton of Switzerland.
  2. A town in Switzerland, the capital of the canton of Glarus.
Glasgow
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proper noun
  1. A city in Lanarkshire and the largest in Scotland.
Glastonbury
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proper noun
  1. A town in Somerset, England
  2. The w:Glastonbury Festival, Glastonbury Festival
  3. A town in Connecticut. See wikipedia:Glastonbury, Connecticut
Gloucester
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proper noun
  1. a city in Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales
  2. a type of cheese
Gloucestershire
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proper noun
  1. A west midland county of England bordered by the Severn estuary, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and Monmouthshire.
Goa
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proper noun
  1. State in western India which has Panaji as its capital.
golden
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adjective
  1. Made of, or relating to gold.
She wore a crown.
  1. Having a colour or other richness suggestive of gold.
Under a sun.
  1. Marked by prosperity, creativity etc.
The Renaissance was a era.
  1. Advantageous or very favourable.
This is a opportunity
  1. Relating to a fiftieth anniversary.
It's not long until our wedding.
Golden Gate Bridge
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proper noun
  1. A 1.7 mile long suspension bridge linking Marin County, California, to San Francisco, California.
gore
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noun
  1. (context, obsolete, _, except in dialects) dirt, Dirt, filth.
  2. blood, Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
verb (gor, ing)
  1. (context, of an animal) To pierce with the horns.
The bull gored the matador.
Gorizia
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proper noun
  1. Province of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
  2. Town and capital of Gorizia.
Gorki
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proper noun
  1. a city in Belarus
Gothenburg
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proper noun
  1. A city on the west coast of Sweden, in the province of Ví¤stergí¶tland.
Gotland
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proper noun
  1. The largest island of Sweden, situated in the Baltic Sea
grande
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adjective
  1. (context, chiefley, _, US) A cup of coffee smaller than venti but larger than tall, usually 12 ounces.
grants
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verb
  1. (third-person singular of, grant)
grapevine
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noun
  1. The plant, of genus Vitis, on which grapes grow
  2. An informal person-to-person means of circulating information or gossip.
I heard on the that Jim will be leaving soon.
Great Britain
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proper noun
  1. The island (and some of the surrounding smaller islands) off the north-west coast of Europe made up of the countries England, Scotland and Wales. Abbreviation: GB.
  2. (formerly, or loosely) the UK.
Greater London
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proper noun '''Greater London
  1. An administrative area combining the City of London, the City of Westminster and 31 other London boroughs.
Great Lakes
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proper noun great, Great lakes, Lakes
  1. A group of five lakes on the United States-Canada border, consisting of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
Great Plains
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proper noun
  1. The relatively flat region of land occupying much of the central US and southern central Canada.
Great Wall of China
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proper noun
  1. an ancient Chinese fortification, almost 4,000 miles long, originally designed to protect China from the Mongols
Great Yarmouth
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proper noun great, Great Yarmouth
  1. A coastal town in Norfolk, England
Greece
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proper noun
  1. Country in southeastern Europe having borders with Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Member state of the European Union since 1981. Official name: Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική ΔημοκÏατία).
Green
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proper noun
  1. A common English surname; either a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green, or was just fond of the colour
Greenland
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proper noun
  1. A self-governing island that is a territory of Denmark.
Greenwich
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proper noun
  1. A town on the south bank of the River Thames through which the prime meridian passes.
greenwood
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noun
  1. A forest in full leaf, as in summer.
  • Under the greenwood tree / Who loves to lie with me / And tune his merry note / Unto the sweet bird"s throat " / Come hither, come hither, come hither! / Here shall he see / No enemy / But winter and rough weather. " Shakespeare, "s:Under the Greenwood Tree, Under the Greenwood Tree".
  • 1819: "We who walk the do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena"s deliverance may be received as an atonement." " Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
Grenada
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proper noun
  1. Country in the Caribbean. Official name: Grenada.
grenadines
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noun
  1. (plural of, grenadine)
Griffin
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male) derived from Griffinus, a latinized form of Griffith.
Griffith
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proper noun
  1. A Welsh male given name, Anglicized from Gruffudd
Grimsby
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proper noun
  1. A seaport on the Humber in the north of England.
Grisons
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proper noun
  1. A canton of Switzerland (its French name).
Groningen
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proper noun
  1. A province of the Netherlands.
  2. The capital city of Groningen.
groves
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noun
  1. (plural of, grove)
Grub Street
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proper noun
  1. the home or state of impoverished writers and literary hacks
Upon the occaision of his first publication he quit his day job, only to find that wasn't lined with manors and villas but hovels and slums.
Guadalajara
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proper noun
  1. The capital city of the state of Jalisco, in the center of Mexico
Guadalcanal
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proper noun
  1. a volcanic island in the Pacific, part of the Solomon Islands
  2. a battle in World War II in which American forces recaptured it from the Japanese
Guam
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proper noun
  1. Unincorporated territory of the United States; placed in Oceania. Official name: Territory of Guam.
Guantanamo Bay
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proper noun Guantanamo bay, Bay
  1. A US naval base in south-east Cuba.
Guatemala
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proper noun
  1. Country in Central America. Official name: Republic of Guatemala.
Guernsey
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proper noun (countable and uncountable; see definitions for plurals)
  1. (uncountable) The second-largest of the Channel Islands.
  2. (countable; plural ) A type of dairy cow bred in Guernsey.
  3. (countable; plural Guernseys) A knitted fisherman"s sweater of a type made on the island.
  4. (countable; plural Guernseys) A long-sleeved shirt worn by sportsmen, especially in rugby codes (historically).
  5. (countable; plural Guernseys) A team-liveried shirt (see jersey)
  6. (uncountable) Selection or election to a position (derived from the sense of a team-liveried shirt indicating membership in the team).
Guiana
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proper noun
  1. A geological region in the north of South America.
Guinea
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proper noun
  1. Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
Guinea-Bissau
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proper noun
  1. Country in Western Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
Gujarat
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proper noun
  1. State in western India which has Gandhinagar as its capital.
Guyana
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proper noun
  1. Country in South America. Official name: Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Gwynedd
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proper noun
  1. A principal area of Wales, to the north-west of the country

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