Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any ruminant of the genus Capra.

  2. Any ruminant of the genus Capra.

    (uncountable)The meat of these animals.

    Ziege, Geiß, Bock

    коза́kozá, козёлkozjól

    коза́kozá, козе́лkozél, цапcap

  3. (countable, slang, uncountable)A lecherous man.

  4. (countable, informal, uncountable)A scapegoat.

  5. (countable, slang, uncountable)A Pontiac GTO car.

  6. (countable, uncountable)A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.

    a victim of ridicule or pranks

  8. (countable, uncountable)A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

Examples

748 sentences
  1. This cheese is made from goat's milk.

    Цей сир зроблено з козиного молока. — deniko

    ruЭтот сыр сделан из козьего молока. — Tretiz

    deDieser Käse wird aus Ziegenmilch gemacht. — al_ex_an_der

  2. I fed the goats.

    Я погодував кіз. — deniko

    ruЯ накормил коз. — marafon

  3. Where are the goats?

    Де кози? — deniko

    ruГде козы? — marafon

  4. How many goats do they have?

    ruСколько у них коз? — marafon

  5. It's time to milk the goats.

    ruПора доить коз. — marafon

    deEs ist Zeit, die Ziegen zu melken. — Waldelfe

Translations

9 languages
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Русский
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West German

Inherited from Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language.

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Forms

plural: goats
Singulargoat
Pluralgoats

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns:caprine animal
  • (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Capricorn:Capricorn
  • a victim of ridicule or pranks:buttlaughingstockstooge
  • the tenth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about December 22 to January 19:CapricornCapricorn the Goat

Word family

84 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • milk a goat
  • goat cheese
  • milks the goat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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