goose

CEFRA2

/ɡuːs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A large water bird with a long neck.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A female goose.

Examples

  • Don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

  • She wasn't hurt, but she got goose bumps when her car nearly crashed.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • /ɡus/
  • /ɡʉs/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The flesh of the goose used as food.

  2. Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.

  3. A silly person.

More examples

In context

  • There is a flock of geese on the pond.

  • A group of geese is called a gaggle.

  • The goose, reputed to possess high generative power, was sacred to Priapus.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

PIE word *ǵʰh₂éns From Middle English goos, gos, from Old English gōs, from Proto-West Germanic *gans, from Proto-Germanic *gans, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns. Cognates Compare West Frisian goes, North Frisian göis (also Fering-Öömrang dialect North Frisian gus; Sölring dialect North Frisian Guus; Heligoland dialect North Frisian gus), Low German Goos, Gans, Dutch gans, German Gans, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian gås, Icelandic gæs, Irish gé, Latin ānser, Latvian zùoss, Russian гусь (gusʹ), Albanian gatë, Ancient Greek χήν (khḗn), Avestan 𐬰𐬁 (zā), Sanskrit हंस (haṃsá). * The tailor's iron is so called from the likeness of the handle to the neck of a goose.