name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
gale
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɡeɪl/
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rhymes with -eɪl
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homophone: Gail
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CMU ARPABET: G EY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A unisex given name.
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois.
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hendricks County, Indiana.
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
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noun
Meaning 7
A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
Examples
- It's blowing a gale outside.
- Many parts of the boat were damaged in the gale.
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noun
Meaning 8
An outburst, especially of laughter.
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Examples
- a gale of laughter
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noun
Meaning 9
A light breeze.
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Usage: archaic, literary
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noun
Meaning 10
A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
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noun
Meaning 11
A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
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Usage: archaic
Examples
- Gale day - the day on which rent or interest is due.
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noun
Meaning 12
The personal mining plot of a freeminer.
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verb
Meaning 13
To cry; groan; croak.
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Usage: dialectal, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To talk.
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Usage: dialectal, intransitive
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verb
Meaning 15
To sing; utter with musical modulations.
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Usage: dialectal, transitive
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verb
Meaning 16
To sail, or sail fast.
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Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
Meaning 17
a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale
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Broader terms: wind, air current, current of air
Narrower terms: moderate gale, near gale, fresh gale, strong gale, whole gale
History
Etymology
From Middle English gale (“a wind, breeze”), possibly from Old English galan, possibly an unknown North Germanic origin, related to Icelandic gola (“a breeze”), Danish gal (“furious, mad”), both from Old Norse gala (“to sing”), and thus ultimately related to the above word (etymology 1).
From Middle English gaile, gawl, gawwyl, gaȝel, gagel, from Old English gagel, gagelle, gagille, gagolle (“gale; sweet gale”), from Proto-West Germanic *gagul, from Proto-Germanic *gagulaz (“gale; sweet-willow”). Cognate with Scots gaul, gall (“bog-myrtle”), Dutch gagel (“wild myrtle”), German Gagel (“myrtle-bush”), Icelandic gaglviður (“sweet-gale; myrtle”).
From Middle English gavel (“rent; tribute”), from Old English gafol.
From Middle English galen, from Old English galan (“to sing, enchant, call, cry, scream; sing charms, practice incantation”), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *ghel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”). Cognate with Danish gale (“to crow”), Swedish gala (“to crow”), Icelandic gala (“to sing, chant, crow”), Dutch galm (“echo, sound, noise”). Related to yell.
Across languages
Translations
107 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: вихър (vihǎr) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Bulgarian: буря (burja) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Catalan: vendaval — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Catalan: ventada — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Chinese Mandarin: 強風 /强风 (qiángfēng) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Czech: vichřice — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Danish: kuling — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Dutch: storm — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Dutch: rukwind — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Esperanto: ventego — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Esperanto: burasko — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Finnish: myrskyinen tuuli — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Finnish: puhuri — meteorology: a very strong wind
- French: coup de vent — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Galician: galerna — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Galician: vendaval — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Galician: noada — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Georgian: ძლიერი ქარი (ʒlieri kari) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Georgian: გრიგალი (grigali) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Georgian: ქარიშხალი (karišxali) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- German: Sturm — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Ancient Greek: ἀήτης (aḗtēs) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Hebrew: סְעָרָה (se'arà) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Irish: gála — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Italian: folata — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Italian: ventata — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Italian: fortunale — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Italian: burrasca — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Italian: vento forte — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Italian: brezza — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Japanese: 強風 (kyōfū) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Korean: 강풍 (gangpung) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Latin: procella — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Latvian: auka — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Macedonian: бу́ра (búra) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Malay: badai — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Māori: kawaru — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Māori: tūpuhi — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Māori: pārerarera — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Māori: paraawa — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Māori: āwhā — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Norman: dgêle — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Norman: taompette — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Norwegian: kuling — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Polish: wichura — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Polish: wicher — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Portuguese: ventania — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Portuguese: vendaval — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Russian: бу́ря (búrja) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Russian: шторм (štorm) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Russian: поры́в ве́тра (porýv vétra) — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Spanish: ventolera — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Spanish: ventarrón — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Spanish: vendaval — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Swedish: kuling — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Vietnamese: bão tố — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Woiwurrung: boolootò moonmot — meteorology: a very strong wind
- Bulgarian: взрив (vzriv) — outburst of laughter
- Bulgarian: изблик (izblik) — outburst of laughter
- Czech: výbuch smíchu — outburst of laughter
- Finnish: naurunpuuska — outburst of laughter
- Finnish: pyrskähdys — outburst of laughter
- Georgian: ხარხარი (xarxari) — outburst of laughter
- Georgian: გაცინება (gacineba) — outburst of laughter
- Italian: esplosione — outburst of laughter
- Italian: scoppio — outburst of laughter
- Polish: wybuch — outburst of laughter
- Russian: взрыв (vzryv) — outburst of laughter
- Russian: при́ступ (prístup) — outburst of laughter
- Russian: вспы́шка (vspýška) — outburst of laughter
- Serbo-Croatian: napadaj — outburst of laughter
- Bulgarian: блатиста мирта (blatista mirta) — Myrica gale
- Catalan: murta de Brabant — Myrica gale
- Danish: mosepors — Myrica gale
- Danish: pors — Myrica gale
- Danish: porse — Myrica gale
- Dutch: wilde gagel — Myrica gale
- Estonian: harilik porss — Myrica gale
- Faroese: porsrunnur — Myrica gale
- Finnish: suomyrtti — Myrica gale
- French: piment royal — Myrica gale
- French: myrte des marais — Myrica gale
- French: bois-sent-bon — Myrica gale
- Galician: frundo — Myrica gale
- Galician: frundiño — Myrica gale
- German: Gagel — Myrica gale
- German: Gagelstrauch — Myrica gale
- Hungarian: fenyérmirtusz — Myrica gale
- Icelandic: mjaðarlyng — Myrica gale
- Icelandic: bruggbuski — Myrica gale
- Irish: raideog — Myrica gale
- Italian: mirto di palude — Myrica gale
- Italian: mirica dolce — Myrica gale
- Lithuanian: pajūrinis sotvaras — Myrica gale
- Norwegian Bokmål: pors — Myrica gale
- Old Norse: pors — Myrica gale
- Polish: woskownica — Myrica gale
- Portuguese: samouco-do-brabante — Myrica gale
- Portuguese: frundinho — Myrica gale
- Russian: воско́вник (voskóvnik) — Myrica gale
- Scottish Gaelic: roid — Myrica gale
- Spanish: mirto de Brabante — Myrica gale
- Spanish: mirto de turbera — Myrica gale
- Swedish: pors — Myrica gale
- Welsh: helygen Mair — Myrica gale
- Welsh: gwyrddling — Myrica gale
- Welsh: madywydd — Myrica gale