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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Galatians

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of gallon.
  • noun An element in Celtic local names, denoting ‘foreigner,’ especially, in Irish use, ‘Englishman.’ Thus, Donegal (Dun-na-n Gall), ‘the fortress of the foreigners’ (in this case known to have been Danes); Galbally in Limerick, and Galwally in Down, ‘English town’; Ballynagall, ‘the town of the Englishmen’; Clonegall, ‘the meadow of the Englishmen’; etc.
  • noun A vulgar corruption of girl.
  • noun A more or less decomposed ferruginous rock, nearly or quite the same as gossan.
  • noun An abbreviation of Galatians.

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  • proper noun Abbreviation of Galatians.

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  • noun alliterative term for girl (or woman)
  • noun a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo)
  • noun United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters

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