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19,295 words · meanings, pronunciation and origins · ranked by use

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  • globe/ɡləʊb/nounB2The earth, or a round model of it.
  • globular/ˈɡlɒbjʊlə/adjectiveC1Shaped roughly like a ball.
  • gloom/ɡluːm/nounB22 meaningsPartial darkness in which you can barely make things out.
  • gloomy/ˈɡluːmi/adjectiveB23 meaningsDark and short of light.
  • glorify/ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/verbB2+To praise something as far greater than it is.
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adjectiveB22 meanings
Magnificent enough to be remembered with pride.
  • glory/ˈɡlɔːɹi/nounB12 meaningsGreat honour and fame won by achievement.
  • glory inphraseC2To relish something openly and even boastfully, letting everyone see how pleased with it you are.
  • gloss/ɡlɒs/nounB22 meaningsPaint or a finish that dries hard and shiny.
  • glossary/ˈɡlɒs.ə.ɹi/nounB2+An alphabetical list of hard words and their meanings.
  • glossy/ˈɡlɒsi/adjectiveB1+Having a bright shiny surface.
  • glove/ɡlʌv/nounB1A covering for the hand with separate parts for each finger.
  • glow/ɡləʊ/verbB23 meaningsTo give out a soft steady light, with no flame.
  • glower/ˈɡlaʊə(ɹ)/verbC1To stare angrily at somebody.
  • glue/ɡluː/nounA2+3 meaningsA sticky substance used to join things.
  • glue backphraseB1To stick broken pieces together again.
  • glum/ɡlʌm/adjectiveC1Quietly gloomy and dejected.
  • gluten-freeadjectiveB1Made without the protein found in wheat.
  • glutton/ˈɡlʌtn̩/nounB2+Somebody who eats far too much.
  • gluttony/ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/nounC1Eating and drinking far more than you need.
  • glyph/ɡlɪf/nounC1A carved symbol standing for a word or a sound.
  • gnarled/nɑː(ɹ)ld/adjectiveC1Twisted and knotted with age.
  • gnash/ˈnæʃ/verbC1To grind the teeth together, especially in rage or anguish.
  • gnat/næt/nounB2+A tiny biting fly.
  • gnaw/nɔː/verbC12 meaningsTo bite at something again and again.
  • gnome/ˈnəʊ̯m/nounB2+A small bearded figure of folklore, often in a garden.
  • go/ɡəʊ/verbA14 meaningsTo move from here to another place.
  • go ahead/ˌɡəʊ əˈhɛd/phraseB12 meaningsTo proceed with something.
  • go astrayphraseC1To become lost, or to wander from what is right.
  • go awayphraseA22 meaningsTo leave a place or person.
  • go backphraseA22 meaningsTo return to a place you were before.
  • go darkphraseC1To cease all communication deliberately.
  • go halvesphraseB2To split the cost equally between two.
  • go in forphraseC1To take part in, or to make a habit of.
  • go offphraseB22 meaningsTo explode, or to sound suddenly.
  • go on/ˈɡoʊˌɒn/phraseB12 meaningsTo continue.
  • go outphraseA22 meaningsTo leave home for a social occasion.
  • go overphraseB22 meaningsTo examine or review something carefully.
  • go pastphraseA2To move beyond something without stopping.
  • go the extra mile/ˈɡəʊ ði ˈɛk.stɹə ˈmaɪl/phraseB2To do more than duty requires.
  • go throughphraseB22 meaningsTo experience something difficult.
  • go to your headphraseB2To make you conceited, or to make you tipsy.
  • go togetherphraseB1To look or taste right in each other's company.
  • go with the flowphraseB2To accept what happens rather than fight it.
  • goad/ɡəʊd/verbC12 meaningsTo keep provoking somebody into acting.
  • goal/ɡəʊl/nounA23 meaningsThe frame with a net that a team tries to put the ball into.
  • goalkeeper/ˈɡəʊlˌkiː.pə/nounB1+The one player allowed to use hands to guard the net.
  • goat/ɡəʊt/nounA2A horned farm animal kept for milk and meat.
  • goatee/ɡəʊˈtiː/nounB2+A small beard on the chin alone.
  • gobble/ˈɡɒbl̩/verbB22 meaningsTo eat fast and greedily.
  • goblet/ˈɡɒblət/nounB2+A drinking glass on a tall stem.
  • goblin/ˈɡɒb.lɪn/nounB2A small malicious creature of folklore.
  • god/ɡɒd/nounA1A being worshipped as having power over nature and people.
  • godchild/ˈɡɑdˌt͡ʃaɪld/nounB2+The child you promise at baptism to help guide through life.
  • goddamadjectiveB2Used to add force to an angry statement.
  • goddess/ˈɡɒdɛs/nounB1+A female being worshipped as divine.
  • godfather/ˈɡɑdfɑðɚ/nounB1+2 meaningsA man chosen to take an interest in a child's upbringing.
  • godforsaken/ˌɡɒd.fə(ɹ)ˈseɪ.kɪn/adjectiveC1Bleak, dreary and remote.
  • godless/ˈɡɒdləs/adjectiveC1Lacking any religion or reverence.
  • godly/ˈɡɑdli/adjectiveB2+Devout in conduct, living by divine law so that righteousness shows in behaviour rather than in outward displays of devotion.