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GARGOYLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gargoyle mean? 

GARGOYLE (noun)
  The noun GARGOYLE has 2 senses:

1. a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animalplay

2. an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animalplay

  Familiarity information: GARGOYLE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GARGOYLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gargoyle" is a kind of...):

spout (an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain)


Sense 2

Meaning:

An ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gargoyle" is a kind of...):

decoration; ornament; ornamentation (something used to beautify)


 Context examples 


The face of the creature was like the wildest gargoyle that the imagination of a mad medieval builder could have conceived.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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