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gout

noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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  • US: /ɡaʊt/
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  • rhymes with -aʊt
  • Canada: [ɡʌut]
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  • CMU ARPABET: G AW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis, rich man's disease

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: arthritis

2

noun

Meaning 2

A drop; a spurt or splotch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable, usually

Examples

  • Alternative forms: gut, gutt

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, rare, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Alternative form of gote (“sluice, ditch, drain; vault”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Taste; relish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To spurt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

a painful inflammation of the big toe and foot caused by defects in uric acid metabolism resulting in deposits of the acid and its salts in the blood and joints

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gouty arthritis, urarthritis

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: arthritis

History

Etymology

From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte and gutta. The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".

Borrowed from French goût.

Across languages

Translations

94 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: gutë — arthritic disease
  • Albanian: podagër — arthritic disease
  • Arabic: رَثْيَة (raṯya) — arthritic disease
  • Arabic: نِقْرِس (niqris) — arthritic disease
  • Armenian: հոդատապ (hodatap) — arthritic disease
  • Armenian: պոդագրա (podagra) — arthritic disease
  • Azerbaijani: podaqra — arthritic disease
  • Basque: hezueri — arthritic disease
  • Bulgarian: подагра (podagra) — arthritic disease
  • Catalan: gota — arthritic disease
  • Chinese Cantonese: 痛風 /痛风 — arthritic disease
  • Chinese Mandarin: 痛風 /痛风 (tòngfēng) — arthritic disease
  • Czech: dna — arthritic disease
  • Czech: pakostnice — arthritic disease
  • Danish: gigt — arthritic disease
  • Dutch: jicht — arthritic disease
  • Elfdalian: djikt — arthritic disease
  • Esperanto: podagro — arthritic disease
  • Faroese: gikt — arthritic disease
  • Finnish: kihti — arthritic disease
  • French: goutte — arthritic disease
  • Galician: gota — arthritic disease
  • Georgian: ნიკრისის ქარი (niḳrisis kari) — arthritic disease
  • German: Gicht — arthritic disease
  • Greek: ποδάγρα (podágra) — arthritic disease
  • Greek: ουρική αρθρίτιδα (ourikí arthrítida) — arthritic disease
  • Ancient Greek: ποδάγρα (podágra) — arthritic disease
  • Greenlandic: gigti — arthritic disease
  • Greenlandic: avallunneq — arthritic disease
  • Hebrew: שגדון (shigadon) — arthritic disease
  • Hindi: वातरक्त (vātrakt) — arthritic disease
  • Hungarian: köszvény — arthritic disease
  • Icelandic: gigt — arthritic disease
  • Indonesian: asam urat — arthritic disease
  • Indonesian: gout — arthritic disease
  • Indonesian: pirai — arthritic disease
  • Italian: gotta — arthritic disease
  • Italian: podagra — arthritic disease
  • Japanese: 痛風 — arthritic disease
  • Kazakh: тұзжиналу (tūzjinalu) — arthritic disease
  • Korean: 통풍 (tongpung) — arthritic disease
  • Lao: ເກົາ (kao) — arthritic disease
  • Latin: podagra — arthritic disease
  • Latin: gutta — arthritic disease
  • Latvian: podagra — arthritic disease
  • Lithuanian: podagra — arthritic disease
  • Luxembourgish: Giicht — arthritic disease
  • Macedonian: гихт (giht) — arthritic disease
  • Macedonian: подагра (podagra) — arthritic disease
  • Malay: gout — arthritic disease
  • Māori: porohau — arthritic disease
  • Māori: koute — arthritic disease
  • Mongolian: тулай өвчин (tulaj övčin) — arthritic disease
  • Mongolian: тулайтах (tulajtax) — arthritic disease
  • Mongolian: ᠲᠤᠯᠠᠢ ᠡᠪᠡᠳᠴᠢᠨ (tulai ebedčin) — arthritic disease
  • Mongolian: ᠲᠤᠯᠠᠶᠢᠲᠣᠬᠤ (tulayitoqu) — arthritic disease
  • Nepali: बात (bāt) — arthritic disease
  • Nepali: बाथ (bāth) — arthritic disease
  • Nepali: गाउट (gāuṭ) — arthritic disease
  • Nepali: युरिक एसिडको रोग (yurik esiḍko rog) — arthritic disease
  • Norwegian Bokmål: gikt — arthritic disease
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gikt — arthritic disease
  • Old English: fōtādl — arthritic disease
  • Polish: dna — arthritic disease
  • Portuguese: gota — arthritic disease
  • Punjabi: ਗਾਊਟ (gāūṭa) — arthritic disease
  • Romanian: gută — arthritic disease
  • Romanian: podagră — arthritic disease
  • Romansh: gutta — arthritic disease
  • Russian: пода́гра (podágra) — arthritic disease
  • Northern Sami: leasmi — arthritic disease
  • Northern Sami: leasmedávda — arthritic disease
  • Serbo-Croatian: kostobolja — arthritic disease
  • Serbo-Croatian: giht — arthritic disease
  • Slovak: dna — arthritic disease
  • Slovene: protin — arthritic disease
  • Slovene: putika — arthritic disease
  • Lower Sorbian: popajź — arthritic disease
  • Upper Sorbian: wić — arthritic disease
  • Spanish: gota — arthritic disease
  • Spanish: podagra — arthritic disease
  • Spanish: quiragra — arthritic disease
  • Swedish: gikt — arthritic disease
  • Tagalog: piyo — arthritic disease
  • Tagalog: gota — arthritic disease
  • Thai: เกาต์ (gáo) — arthritic disease
  • Turkish: gut — arthritic disease
  • Turkish: damla hastalığı — arthritic disease
  • Ukrainian: подагра (podahra) — arthritic disease
  • Vietnamese: thống phong — arthritic disease
  • Volapük: gig — arthritic disease
  • Volapük: futagig — arthritic disease
  • Volapük: jotagig — arthritic disease
  • Zazaki: bılık — arthritic disease