Meaning

2 senses

  1. To sport or keep festival.

  2. (obsolete)To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. But the girl isn't interested in the Palace of Gaudí.

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Origin

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinke

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.

Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”).

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Forms

gauds, gauding, gauded, gauded
Base formgaud · to gaud
3rd person singulargauds
Present participlegauding
Past simplegauded
Past participlegauded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygaud
he, she, itgauds

Past simpleLesson

all personsgauded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gauded
he, she, ithas gauded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gaud

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gatherergatheringgatorgaudyB2gauge

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