Other forms: gongs
A gong is a huge hanging metal disc struck for a deep booming note. Strike the gong, the dinner gong, a bronze gong.
It is played with a soft beater and the note builds rather than starts, which is why an orchestral one is struck softly and allowed to swell. In British slang a gong is a medal. The word came from Malay and imitates the sound.
1noungongA large hanging metal disc struck for a deep note.
“A servant struck the gong to call everyone to dinner.”
gong is an instrument.
From Malay gong, imitating the sound of the instrument.
Malay
gong
English, today
gong
Borrowed from Malay gong.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA