Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are generally bigger than ducks.

    There is a flock of geese on the pond.

    Gans

    гусьgusʹ, гусы́няgusýnja, гуса́кgusák

    гу́скаhúska, гуса́кhusák, гу́сиhúsy

  2. (countable, uncountable)A female goose.

    flesh of a goose (domestic or wild)

  3. (uncountable)The flesh of the goose used as food.

    гуся́тинаhusjátyna

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)A silly person.

  5. (South Africa, countable, dated, slang, uncountable)A young woman or girlfriend.

  6. (historical, uncountable)An old English board game in which players moved counters along a board, earning a double move when they reached the picture of a goose.

  7. (archaic, countable, uncountable)A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.

Examples

118 sentences
  1. It was a wild goose chase.

    ruЭто была сумасбродная затея. — shanghainese

  2. I saw a lot of geese.

  3. Tom knew his goose was cooked.

    ruТом понял, что он пропал. — marafon

  4. I think it's a wild goose chase.

  5. Have you ever seen geese in this area?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae:
flesh of a goose used as food:
Русский
By meaning 1
a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae:

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