GAUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gaul mean? 

• GAUL (noun)
  The noun GAUL has 3 senses:

1. a person of French descent

2. a Celt of ancient Gaul

3. an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands

  Familiarity information: GAUL used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of French descent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

frog; Gaul

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

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman (a person of French nationality)

Derivation:

Gallic (of or pertaining to France or the people of France)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Celt of ancient Gaul

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

Celt; Kelt (a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gaul"):

Galatian (a native or inhabitant of Galatia in Asia Minor (especially a member of a people believed to have been Gauls who conquered Galatia in the 3rd century BC))

Derivation:

Gallic (of or pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gallia; Gaul

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

 Context examples 

In an accumulation of Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, I entered the office—or, as our lively neighbour the Gaul would term it, the Bureau—of the Firm, nominally conducted under the appellation of Wickfield and—HEEP, but in reality, wielded by—HEEP alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)