name
Meaning 1
Wollongong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-South-Wales, colloquial
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Standard Lemma guide
gong
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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rhymes with -ʊŋ
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɒŋ/
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General-American: /ɡɔŋ/
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cot-caught-merger: /ɡɑŋ/
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noun
Meaning 2
A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 3
A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
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noun
Meaning 5
An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 7
A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
Meaning 9
To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
To warn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.
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verb
Meaning 12
To give an award or medal to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, slang, transitive
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noun
Meaning 13
a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chime, bell
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percussion instrument, percussive instrument
Narrower terms: carillon, handbell
noun
Meaning 14
a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tam-tam
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: percussion instrument, percussive instrument
verb
Meaning 15
sound a gong
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sound
History
Etymology
From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeic.
From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang.
From Mandarin 功 (gōng, “merit; achievement”).
Across languages
Translations
56 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: ghong — percussion instrument
- Albanian: gong — percussion instrument
- Arabic: جَرَس (jaras) — percussion instrument
- Arabic: نَاقُوس (nāqūs) — percussion instrument
- Belarusian: гонг (honh) — percussion instrument
- Bulgarian: гонг (gong) — percussion instrument
- Catalan: gong — percussion instrument
- Chinese Cantonese: 鑼 /锣 (lo4) — percussion instrument
- Chinese Mandarin: 鑼 /锣 (luó) — percussion instrument
- Czech: gong — percussion instrument
- Danish: gongong — percussion instrument
- Dutch: gong — percussion instrument
- Esperanto: gongo — percussion instrument
- Finnish: gongi — percussion instrument
- French: gong — percussion instrument
- Georgian: გონგი (gongi) — percussion instrument
- German: Gong — percussion instrument
- Greek: γκονγκ (gkongk) — percussion instrument
- Hebrew: גונג (gong) — percussion instrument
- Hindi: घंटा (ghaṇṭā) — percussion instrument
- Hungarian: gong — percussion instrument
- Indonesian: gong — percussion instrument
- Italian: gong — percussion instrument
- Japanese: 銅鑼 (dora) — percussion instrument
- Japanese: ゴング (gongu) — percussion instrument
- Korean: 징 (jing) — percussion instrument
- Korean: 공 (gong) — percussion instrument
- Lao: ຄ້ອງ (khǭng) — percussion instrument
- Lingala: lokole — percussion instrument
- Lü: ᦅᦸᧂᧉ (koang2) — percussion instrument
- Macedonian: гонг (gong) — percussion instrument
- Malay: gong — percussion instrument
- Manchu: ᠯᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ (longkon) — percussion instrument
- Māori: pahū — percussion instrument
- Maranao: momongan — percussion instrument
- Norwegian: gong — percussion instrument
- Polish: gong — percussion instrument
- Portuguese: gongo — percussion instrument
- Romanian: gong — percussion instrument
- Russian: гонг (gong) — percussion instrument
- Serbo-Croatian: гонг — percussion instrument
- Serbo-Croatian: gong — percussion instrument
- Sicilian: gong — percussion instrument
- Sikkimese: མཁར་རྔ (mkhar rnga) — percussion instrument
- Slovene: gong — percussion instrument
- Spanish: gongo — percussion instrument
- Spanish: gong — percussion instrument
- Spanish: batintín — percussion instrument
- Swedish: gonggong — percussion instrument
- Tai Dam: ꪁ꫁ꪮꪉ — percussion instrument
- Thai: ฆ้อง (kɔ́ɔng) — percussion instrument
- Tibetan: འཁར་རྔ ('khar rnga) — percussion instrument
- Turkish: gong — percussion instrument
- Ukrainian: гонг (honh) — percussion instrument
- Vietnamese: cồng chiêng — percussion instrument
- Vietnamese: cồng — percussion instrument