adj · name · noun · verb · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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/ɡʌt/
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Northern-England:/ɡʊt/
rhymes with -ʌt
CMU ARPABET:G AH1 T
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
adj
Meaning 1
Made of gut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
a violin with gut strings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
adj
Meaning 2
Instinctive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
gut reaction
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3
name
Meaning 3
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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4
noun
Meaning 4
The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
5
noun
Meaning 5
The abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Examples
You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
6
noun
Meaning 6
The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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7
noun
Meaning 7
A person's emotional, visceral self.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
I have a funny feeling in my gut.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
8
noun
Meaning 8
A class that is not demanding or challenging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, informal, uncountable
Examples
You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
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Synonyms: none provided
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9
noun
Meaning 9
A narrow passage of water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
the Gut of Canso
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 10
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 11
Initialism of grand unification theory or grand unified theory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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12
verb
Meaning 12
To eviscerate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
Holonym: field dress
The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
The lioness gutted her prey.
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Synonyms: none provided
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13
verb
Meaning 13
To remove or destroy the most important parts of.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
Fire gutted the building.
Congress gutted the welfare bill.
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verb
Meaning 14
To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
They were gutted by the court's decision.
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15
noun
Meaning 15
a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: catgut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cord
16
noun
Meaning 16
the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: intestine, bowel
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: internal organ, viscus
Narrower terms: small intestine, large intestine
17
noun
Meaning 17
a narrow channel or strait
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: channel
18
verb
Meaning 18
remove the guts of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
gut the sheep
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remove, take, take away, withdraw
19
verb
Meaning 19
empty completely; destroy the inside of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
Gut the building
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: empty
History
Etymology
From Middle English gut, gutte, gotte, from Old English gutt (usually in plural guttas (“guts, entrails”)), from Proto-Germanic *gut-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵhewd- (“to pour”). Related to English gote (“drain”), Old English ġēotan (“to pour”). More at gote, yote. The verb is from Middle English gutten, gotten (“to gut”).
* As a German, Alemannic German, and Jewish surname, variant of Guth. Also compare Gutmann. * As an English surname, from the noun gut. See Gott.
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Translations
101 source translations are retained for this English entry.