g
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letter/d͡ʒiː/phoneme/ɡ/
g letter: the seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script. Also the abbreviation of gram.
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g (countable and uncountable, plural gs)
- A unit of gravitational acceleration.
- pull Gs
- "Every bone and muscle is aligned to maximize mobility in one g."1989 May, John Boslough, quoting Ralph Pelligra, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 578
Letter (2) capitalized: G
letter/dʒiː/
- The seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
- On several occasions, indeed, he did learn E, F, G, H, but by the time he knew them, it was always discovered that he had forgotten A, B, C, and D.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
Numeral (2) capitalized: G
letter/dʒiː/
Noun (2) capitalized: G
G (countable and uncountable, plural Gs)
- Games (the statistic reporting the number of games that a player has participated in).
- Green.
- General (suitable for a general audience).
- Abbreviation of goals, a sports statistic.
- Ground floor (of a building).
- A galaxy.
- Gravity.
- Abbreviation of grand (“thousand (dollars, pounds etc.)”).
- Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis / When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this / 50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa / Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur / Phone bill about two G's flat / No need to worry, my accountant handles that / And my whole crew is loungin' / Celebratin'...1994, The Notorious B.I.G., “Juicy”, in Ready to Die, performed by The Notorious B.I.G.
- Just really want to smoke my weed, fuck these hoes, and stack my Gs.2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring...
- Abbreviation of genitive case.
- The academic grade that comes next below F.
- Abbreviation of gangster; often used to address one's friend.
- I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like / On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight1995 August 1, “Gangsta's Paradise”, in Gangsta's Paradise, performed by Coolio featuring L.V.
- Love for the G's in the ends / But we don't love no girls in the ends / Last time I fell in love with a sket / But trust me, I will never do that again2014, Skepta, Jme, “That's Not Me” (track 10), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta featuring Jme
- Abbreviation of government spending.
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- Alternative letter-case form of g (unit of gravitational acceleration).
- Abbreviation of gamma-hydroxybutyrate or gamma-butyrolactone.
- Friday afternoon, 4.30. The order has gone to my dealer: two bags of meph, 50ml of G.2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN
- glucinum.
- Initialism of grog: marked in the ship's books when a sailor took the daily rum ration.
Also used as
g is also the abbreviation of gram.
g is also the abbreviation of general intelligence.
g is also the abbreviation of grand.
g is also the abbreviation of good.
g is also the abbreviation of gangster.
g is also the abbreviation of grin.
Synonyms of g
Forms of g
| Letter | |
|---|---|
| uppercase | G |
| plural | gs |
| plural | g's |
| lowercase | g |
| plural | Gs |
| plural | G's |
| Numeral | |
| uppercase | G |
| plural | gs |
| plural | g's |
| lowercase | g |
| plural | Gs |
| plural | G's |
| Noun | |
| plural | gs |
| plural | Gs |
| alternative form | G. |
Origin of g
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Words that rhyme with g
Questions about g
- What does g mean?
- G means the seventh letter of the English alphabet, called gee and written in the Latin script.
- What part of speech is g?
- G can be a letter, a numeral or a noun.
- How do you pronounce g?
- G is pronounced /d͡ʒiː/ (letter).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: g (page history and authors); G (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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