name
Meaning 1
A particular Internet company.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: trademark
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
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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/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
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rhymes with -uːɡəl
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homophone: google
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homophone: googol
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go͞o'g(ə)l
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homophone: Google
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homophone: gugel
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CMU ARPABET: G UW1 G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Google Search, a search engine operated by the company of the same name; the most popular search engine and most-visited website worldwide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: trademark
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
Examples
- He did some research on Google for his history project.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, informal
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, dated, informal
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Google hit, ghit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hit, result
num
Meaning 5
Misspelling of googol.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, alt-of, informal, misspelling
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Meaning 6
To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 7
Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, informal, transitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 10
To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, broadly, informal, transitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 11
To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, informal, intransitive
Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- His name googles.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
Alternative letter-case form of google.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: search engine
verb
Meaning 14
search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He googled the woman he had met at the party
- My children are googling all day
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: research, search, explore
History
Etymology
An accidental misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
See googol.
Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
Across languages
Translations
228 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: Google — Google
- Amharic: ጉግል (gugl) — Google
- Arabic: جُوجِل (jūjil) — Google
- Arabic: غُوغِل (ḡūḡil) — Google
- Arabic: قُوقِل (qūqil) — Google
- Arabic: قوقل (gūgil) — Google
- Armenian: Գուգլ (Gugl) — Google
- Assamese: গুগল (gugol) — Google
- Azerbaijani: Quql — Google
- Bambara: Gugolu — Google
- Belarusian: Гугл (Huhl) — Google
- Bengali: গুগল (gugol) — Google
- Bhojpuri: गूगल (gūgal) — Google
- Bulgarian: Гу́гъл (Gúgǎl) — Google
- Burmese: ဂူဂယ် (gugai) — Google
- Chinese Cantonese: 谷歌 (guk1 go1) — Google
- Chinese Mandarin: 谷歌 (Gǔgē) — Google
- Chinese Mandarin: 狗狗 (Gǒugǒu) — Google
- Chuvash: Кукӑль (Kuk̬ălʹ) — Google
- Czech: Google — Google
- Czech: Gúgl — Google
- Czech: Gůgl — Google
- Dinka: Google — Google
- Esperanto: Guglo — Google
- Estonian: Google — Google
- Fiji Hindi: Google — Google
- Finnish: Google — Google
- French: Google — Google
- Galician: Google — Google
- Georgian: გუგლი (gugli) — Google
- German: Google — Google
- Greek: Γκουγκλ (Gkougkl) — Google
- Gujarati: ગૂગલ (gūgal) — Google
- Hebrew: גוגל (gugl) — Google
- Hindi: गूगल (gūgal) — Google
- Hungarian: Google — Google
- Indonesian: Google — Google
- Inuktitut: ᒎᒐᓪ (coocal) — Google
- Italian: Google — Google
- Japanese: グーグル (Gūguru) — Google
- Javanese: ꦒꦹꦒꦼꦭ꧀ (gūgel) — Google
- Kannada: ಗೂಗಲ್ (gūgal) — Google
- Kazakh: Гугл (Gugl) — Google
- Khmer: ហ្គូហ្គល (guugŭəl) — Google
- Korean: 구글 (Gugeul) — Google
- Central Kurdish: گووگڵ (gûgill) — Google
- Northern Kurdish: Gûgil — Google
- Kyrgyz: Гугл (Gugl) — Google
- Lao: ກູໂກລ (kū klō) — Google
- Macedonian: Гугл (Gugl) — Google
- Malay: Google — Google
- Malay: ݢوݢل — Google
- Malay: Google — Google
- Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ (gūgiḷ) — Google
- Māori: Kūkara — Google
- Marathi: गूगल (gūgal) — Google
- Mongolian: Гүүгл (Güügl) — Google
- Nepali: गुगल (gugal) — Google
- Odia: ଗୁଗଲ (gugala) — Google
- Pashto: گووگل — Google
- Persian: گوگل (gugel) — Google
- Polish: Google — Google
- Portuguese: Google — Google
- Punjabi: ਗੂਗਲ (gūgal) — Google
- Romanian: Google — Google
- Russian: Гугл (Gugl) — Google
- Russian: Гугль (Guglʹ) — Google
- Sanskrit: गूगल (gūgala) — Google
- Serbo-Croatian: Гугл — Google
- Serbo-Croatian: Gugl — Google
- Serbo-Croatian: Google — Google
- Sinhalese: ගූගල් (gūgal) — Google
- Spanish: Google — Google
- Swedish: Google — Google
- Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠉꠟ (gugol) — Google
- Tagalog: Google — Google
- Tajik: Гугл (Gugl) — Google
- Tamil: கூகிள் (kūkiḷ) — Google
- Telugu: గూగుల్ (gūgul) — Google
- Thai: กูเกิล (guu-gə̂n) — Google
- Tigrinya: ጉግል (gugl) — Google
- Tok Pisin: Google — Google
- Turkish: Google — Google
- Ukrainian: Ґуґл (Gugl) — Google
- Ukrainian: Гугл (Huhl) — Google
- Urdu: گوگل (gūgal) — Google
- Uyghur: گۇگۇل (gugul) — Google
- Vietnamese: Google — Google
- Yiddish: גוגל (gugl) — Google
- Armenian: գուգլ (gugl) — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Azerbaijani: quqllamaq — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Czech: googlení — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Dutch: googelen — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Estonian: guugeldus — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Finnish: googlaus — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- French: googliser — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Georgian: დაგუგლვა (daguglva) — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Greek: γκουγκλιά (gkougkliá) — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Icelandic: gúgl — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Indonesian: googling — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Italian: googlata — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Italian: gugolata — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Macedonian: гуглање (guglanje) — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Māori: kūkara — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Polish: guglanie — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Polish: guglowanie — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Polish: googlanie — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Polish: googlowanie — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Polish: wyguglowanie — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Polish: wyguglanie — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Portuguese: pesquisa — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Portuguese: googlada — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Russian: гуглопо́иск (guglopóisk) — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Russian: гугле́ние (guglénije) — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Spanish: googleada — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Swedish: googling — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Turkish: googlelamak — Internet search performed on the Google search engine
- Chinese Mandarin: 搜索 (sōusuǒ) — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Estonian: otsing — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Finnish: haku — Internet search performed on any search engine
- French: recherche — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Italian: ricerca — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Japanese: 検索 (kensaku) — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Macedonian: пребарување (prebaruvanje) — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Norwegian: nettsøk — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Swedish: internetsökning — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Swedish: nätsökning — Internet search performed on any search engine
- Finnish: Google-osuma — match obtained by a query in the Google search engine
- Greek: γκουγκλιά (gkougkliá) — match obtained by a query in the Google search engine
- Swedish: googleträff — match obtained by a query in the Google search engine
- Albanian: googloj — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Albanian: gugloj — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Armenian: գուգլել (guglel) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Basque: gogleatu — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Belarusian: гу́гліць (húhlicʹ) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Belarusian: ґу́ґліць (gúglicʹ) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Bengali: গুগল করছি (gugol korchi) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Bulgarian: гугълвам (gugǎlvam) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Bulgarian: гугълна (gugǎlna) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Catalan: googlejar — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Chinese Mandarin: 谷歌 (gǔgē) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Czech: vygooglovat — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Czech: googlit — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Danish: google — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Dutch: googelen — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Esperanto: gugli — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Estonian: guugeldama — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Estonian: googeldama — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Finnish: googlata — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Finnish: googlettaa — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Finnish: kuukkeloida — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: googler — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: gougler — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: googliser — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: google-iser — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: googoliser — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: googueuliser — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: googeliser — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- French: googloter — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Georgian: გუგლავს (guglavs) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Georgian: დაგუგლავს (daguglavs) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- German: googeln — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- German: googlen — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Greek: γκουγκλάρω (gkougkláro) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Greek: γκουγκλίζω (gkougklízo) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Gujarati: ગૂગલ કરવુ (gūgal karvu) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Hebrew: גיגל (gigél) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Hindi: गूगल करना (gūgal karnā) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Hungarian: guglizik — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Icelandic: gúggla — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Icelandic: gúgla — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Irish: gúgláil — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Italian: googlare — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Italian: gugolare — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Japanese: ググる (guguru) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Japanese: グーグる (gūguru) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Lithuanian: pagooglinti or pagūglinti — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Lithuanian: googlinti or gūglinti — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Macedonian: гугла (gugla) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Macedonian: прогуглува (progugluva) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ ചെയ്യൂ (gūgiḷ ceyyū) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Maltese: iggoogilja — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Māori: kūkara — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Marathi: गूगल करणे (gūgal karṇe) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Nepali: गूगल गर्नु (gūgal garnu) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Newar: गूगल ययेगु (gūgala yayegu) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Norwegian: google — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Norwegian: googla — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: googlować — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: guglać — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: wygooglować — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: przegooglować — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: pogooglować — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: guglować — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: wyguglać — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Polish: googlać — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Portuguese: pesquisar no Google — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Portuguese: googlar — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Portuguese: guglar — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Portuguese: googlear — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Romanian: a gugăli — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Romanian: a googăli — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Russian: гу́глить (gúglitʹ) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Russian: загу́глить (zagúglitʹ) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Russian: погу́глить (pogúglitʹ) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Serbo-Croatian: googlati — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Serbo-Croatian: guglati — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Slovak: vygoogliť — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Slovene: googlati — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Spanish: googlear — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Spanish: guglear — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Swedish: googla — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Tagalog: i-google — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Tamil: கூகிள் செய் (kūkiḷ cey) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Tamil: கூகிள் பண்ணு (kūkiḷ paṇṇu) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Telugu: గుగుల్ చేయ్యి (gugul cēyyi) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Turkish: googlelamak — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Ukrainian: ґу́ґлити (gúglyty) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Ukrainian: заґу́ґлити (zagúglyty) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Ukrainian: наґу́ґлити (nagúglyty) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Ukrainian: поґу́ґлити (pogúglyty) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Urdu: گُوگَل کَرنا (gūgal karnā) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Yiddish: גוגלען (guglen) — to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
- Chinese Mandarin: 百度 (Bǎidù) — to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine
- Finnish: hakea — to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine
- Finnish: googlata — to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine
- Finnish: googlettaa — to search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine
- Finnish: löytyä netistä — to be locatable in a search of the Internet
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