gong
A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound…A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
» We'll probably never hear that gong again.
Meaning
7 sensesA percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
Gong
гонгgong
гонгhonh
a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick
(UK, slang)A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
(uncountable)A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
(uncountable)An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
(obsolete)An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
(obsolete)The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.
Examples
7 sentencesWe'll probably never hear that gong again.
I heard the gunshot just after I heard the dinner gong.
I won't see that gong anymore.
My head feels like a gong.
The room emptied when the gong for dinner sounded.
deDas Zimmer leerte sich, als der Gong zum Essen erscholl.
Translations
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Origin
Borrowed from Malay gong (possibly onomatopoeic). From Middle English gong, from Old EnglBorrowed from Malay gong (possibly onomatopoeic).
From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang.
From Mandarin 功 (gōng, “merit; achievement”).
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