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