English words: G

650 words under G; 401–500 on this page.

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• gradual adjective (gradual, more gradual)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Happening slowly and little by little over time, not suddenly.
• gradually adverb (gradually)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Gradually means slowly, a little at a time, over a period, not all at once or suddenly.
• graduate verb (graduate, graduates, graduated, graduating); noun…
  To finish a course at university, college or (US) school and get a degree or diploma.
• graffiti noun (graffiti; uncountable, or plural of graffito)
  Words or pictures painted, sprayed or scratched on walls, trains or other public places, usually without permission.
• graft noun…
  A graft is a piece of skin, bone or other body tissue moved by a surgeon to repair another part of the body.
• grafting verb form of graft (graft, grafts, grafted, grafting); noun…
  Grafting is joining a piece cut from one plant onto another plant so that they grow together, as gardeners do with apple trees.
• graham noun (graham flour; graham cracker — US); Graham (a name)
  Graham is a boy's or man's first name and a family name.
• grail noun (grails)
  a cup or dish that knights in old legends search for, said to be holy.
• grain noun (grain, grains; uncountable for the crop)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Grain is the seeds of plants like wheat, rice, oats, barley and corn, used for food.
• grainy adjective (grainy, grainier, grainiest)
  Grainy means having a rough texture with small bits or grains in it, like sand, or food that is not smooth.
• gram noun (gram, grams); short form g
  A gram is a small unit for measuring how heavy something is (its mass).
• grammar noun (grammar, grammars)everyday · Jewish tradition
  The rules of a language about how words change and are put together into sentences.
• grammarian noun (a grammarian, grammarians)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A person who studies grammar, the rules of how words and sentences are built in a language, or who writes books about it.
• grammatical adjective (grammatical)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Correct according to the rules of grammar.
• grammatically adverb (grammatically)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In a way that follows the rules of grammar, as in «grammatically correct».
• gramophone noun (a gramophone, gramophones)
  An old machine for playing music from records, flat discs with grooves, often with a big horn to make the sound louder.
• gramps noun (informal)
  Grandfather; a friendly name for your grandad.
• gran noun (gran, grans)
  Gran is a friendly, informal word for grandmother.
• granary noun (granaries)everyday · Jewish tradition
  a building or store room where grain such as wheat is kept after harvest.
• grand adjective (grand, grander, grandest); noun…
  Grand means big, impressive and splendid, like a grand palace.
• grandad noun (a grandad, grandads; Grandad as a name)
  Grandad is a friendly word for your grandfather, your mum's or dad's father.
• grandchild noun (a grandchild, grandchildren)
  A grandchild is a child of your son or daughter.
• granddad noun (a granddad, granddads; Granddad as a name)
  Granddad is a friendly, informal word for grandfather, the father of your mother or father.
• granddaughter noun (granddaughter, granddaughters)
  A granddaughter is the daughter of your son or daughter.
• grandeur noun (no plural)
  great size, splendour and magnificence, especially of a palace or a person.
• grandfather noun (grandfather, grandfathers)
  A grandfather is the father of your mother or your father.
• grandma noun (a grandma, grandmas; Grandma as a name)
  Grandma is a friendly word for grandmother: the mother of your mother or of your father.
• grandmaster noun (a grandmaster, grandmasters; also Grandmaster)
  The highest title a chess player can win, given by the World Chess Federation (FIDE) to the very best players.
• grandmother noun (grandmother, grandmothers); also grandma, granny…
  A grandmother is the mother of your mother or of your father.
• grandpa noun (a grandpa, grandpas; Grandpa — as a name)
  Grandpa is an informal, friendly word for your grandfather: the father of your mother or your father.
• grandparent noun (grandparent, grandparents)
  A grandparent is a parent of your mother or father: your grandmother or your grandfather.
• grandson noun (a grandson, grandsons)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A grandson is the son of your son or daughter; a boy is the grandson of his grandparents.
• granite noun (granite — uncountable)
  Granite is a very hard, grey, pink or speckled rock made from cooled magma deep under the ground.
• granny noun (granny, grannies); also «gran», «grandma», «nan»
  A friendly, informal word for your grandmother, the mother of your mum or dad.
• granola noun (granola — uncountable)
  Granola is a breakfast food of baked oats, nuts, seeds and dried fruit, often sweetened with honey, eaten with milk or yogurt.
• grant verb (grant, grants, granted, granting); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To grant means to give or allow something that someone asked for: «grant a wish».
• granted verb, past form of grant…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Granted means given or allowed, often officially.
• granulated adjective (granulated); verb form, past of granulate
  In the form of small grains: granulated sugar.
• grape noun (a grape, grapes)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A grape is a small, round, juicy fruit, green, red or purple, that grows in bunches on a vine.
• grapevine noun (grapevines)everyday · Jewish tradition
  a climbing plant that grows grapes on its stems.
• grapheme noun (a grapheme, graphemes)
  A grapheme is a letter or group of letters that stands for one sound (phoneme) in writing, like «sh» in ship or «igh» in night.
• graphic adjective (graphic); noun (a graphic, graphics)
  A graphic is a picture, diagram, chart or design, especially one made on a computer.
• graphics noun (graphics, plural or uncountable)
  Graphics are pictures, drawings, charts and diagrams, especially ones made on a computer.
• graphite noun (graphite — uncountable)
  Graphite is a soft, dark grey form of carbon that leaves marks on paper.
• grapple verb (grapple, grapples, grappled, grappling); noun…
  To fight with someone by holding and struggling with them.
• grasp verb (grasp, grasps, grasped, grasping); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To take and hold something tightly: She grasped the rope.
• grass noun (grass, grasses); verb (grass, grassed — rare)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Grass is the green plants with thin leaves that cover lawns, parks and fields.
• grasshopper noun (grasshopper, grasshoppers)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A grasshopper is a green or brown insect with strong back legs that jumps far.
• grassland noun (grassland, grasslands)
  Grassland is a large area of land covered mostly with grass and few trees.
• grassroots noun (the grassroots); adjective (grassroots, grass-roots)
  The grassroots are the ordinary people in a group, club or movement, not the leaders.
• grassy adjective (grassy, grassier, grassiest)
  Covered with grass.
• grate verb (grate, grates, grated, grating); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  To rub food such as cheese or carrot against a tool with sharp holes so it falls off in thin strips or tiny bits.
• grateful adjective (grateful, more grateful, most grateful)
  Feeling thankful to someone because they helped you or gave you something, and wanting to show it.
• gratefully adverb (no forms)
  in a thankful way, showing that you are glad someone helped you.
• gratefulness noun (gratefulness, uncountable)
  Gratefulness is the feeling of being thankful and glad for something someone did for you or for good things in your life.
• grater noun (a grater, graters)
  A kitchen tool with many small sharp-edged holes, used to grate cheese, vegetables or other food into small pieces.
• gratification noun (gratification — mostly uncountable; a gratification)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when you get what you want.
• gratified adjective; verb form…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Pleased and satisfied, especially because something has gone well or people have praised you.
• gratify verb (gratifies, gratified, gratifying)
  to please someone or make them happy.
• gratifying adjective (no forms)
  pleasing, giving satisfaction or happiness.
• gratis adverb (gratis); adjective (gratis)
  Free of charge; without having to pay.
• gratitude noun (gratitude — uncountable)
  The feeling of being thankful and wanting to show thanks for something good someone did or gave.
• gratuitously adverb (gratuitously)
  Without a good reason, in a way that is unnecessary and often unkind or shocking: gratuitously rude.
• gratuity noun (a gratuity, gratuities) — formal
  A tip; extra money you give to a waiter, driver or helper to thank them for good service.
• grave noun (a grave, graves); adjective (grave, graver, gravest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  A place in the ground where a dead person is buried, often marked with a stone.
• gravedigger noun (a gravedigger, gravediggers)
  A person whose job is to dig graves in a cemetery for burying the dead.
• gravel noun (gravel — uncountable); verb…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Lots of small stones and bits of rock, used for paths, driveways and roads, or found in rivers.
• gravelly adjective (gravelly)
  Covered with or full of gravel (small stones).
• gravely adverb (gravely)
  In a very serious way, showing that something is important or worrying.
• graven adjectiveeveryday · Jewish tradition
  Carved or cut into stone, wood or metal.
• graver adjective (grave, graver, gravest); noun (a graver — tool)
  Graver means more serious or more worrying: a graver danger.
• gravestone noun (a gravestone, gravestones)
  A stone put on a grave, with the name of the person buried there and words about them.
• graveyard noun (a graveyard, graveyards)
  A graveyard is a piece of land, often around a church, where dead people are buried.
• gravitation noun (gravitation, uncountable); adjective gravitational
  Gravitation is the force by which everything with mass pulls on everything else; it keeps us on the ground and the Moon going round the…
• gravitational adjective
  Gravitational means about gravity, the force that pulls things towards each other, like objects falling to the ground.
• gravity noun (gravity — uncountable)
  The force that pulls things towards each other, especially the pull of the Earth that makes things fall and gives them weight.
• gravy noun (gravy — uncountable)
  Gravy is a hot brown sauce made from the juices of cooked meat, often thickened with flour, poured over meat, potatoes and other food.
• gray adjective (gray, grayer, grayest — US spelling; UK grey)…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Gray is the colour between black and white, like ash or rain clouds.
• graze verb (graze, grazes, grazed, grazing); noun (graze, grazes)
  To graze is when animals like cows, sheep and horses eat grass in a field.
• grease noun (grease — uncountable); verb…
  Grease is a thick, oily substance used to make machine parts move smoothly.
• greasy adjective (greasy, greasier, greasiest)
  Covered with or full of grease or oil: «greasy hands».
• great adjective (great, greater, greatest); adverb greatly; noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Great means very good or excellent: a great idea.
• greater adjective (great, greater, greatest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greater means bigger or more.
• greatest adjective (great, greater, greatest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greatest means the biggest or the most of all.
• greatly adverb (greatly)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greatly means very much or to a large amount: «greatly improved».
• greatness noun (greatness; uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Being very important, powerful, skilled or famous.
• greaves nounJewish tradition
  Armor worn to protect the shins and lower legs.
• grebe noun (a grebe, grebes)
  A diving water bird with lobed toes and a sharp beak, found on lakes and rivers; the great crested grebe has fancy head feathers.
• grecian adjective (Grecian)
  Of ancient Greece, or in the style of ancient Greece: «Grecian columns», «a Grecian urn».
• greece noun (Greece — proper noun, a country)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greece is a country in south-east Europe, by the Mediterranean Sea, with many islands; its capital is Athens.
• greed noun (greed, uncountable)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greed is wanting much more of something, such as money, food or power, than you need or than is fair.
• greedily adverb (greedily)everyday · Jewish tradition
  In a greedy way, wanting or taking more than you need, especially food or money.
• greediness noun (no plural)
  wanting far more food or things than you need, and not sharing.
• greedy adjective (greedy, greedier, greediest)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greedy means wanting much more food, money or things than you need, and not wanting to share.
• greek adjective (Greek); noun…everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greek means from or about Greece, a country in southern Europe.
• green adjective (green, greener, greenest); noun (green, greens)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Green is the colour of grass and leaves.
• greenfly noun (a greenfly, greenfly or greenflies)
  A greenfly is a tiny green insect, a kind of aphid, that sucks sap from plants and can damage them.
• greengrocer noun (greengrocer, greengrocers)
  A greengrocer is a person who sells fresh fruit and vegetables in a shop.
• greenhouse noun (a greenhouse, greenhouses); adjective use…
  A greenhouse is a building made mostly of glass or clear plastic where plants are grown because it stays warm inside.
• greenish adjective (greenish)everyday · Jewish tradition
  Greenish means a little bit green, or of a colour close to green.

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