Word.ws English Dictionary

gannetry

gannetry noun: a colony of gannets (especially one established on an isolated marine rock, during the breeding season).

Noun

gannetry (plural gannetries)

  1. A colony of gannets (especially one established on an isolated marine rock, during the breeding season).

Forms of gannetry

pluralgannetries

Origin of gannetry

From gannet + -ry.

Questions about gannetry

What does gannetry mean?
Gannetry means a colony of gannets (especially one established on an isolated marine rock, during the breeding season).
What part of speech is gannetry?
Gannetry is a noun.
What is the plural of gannetry?
The plural of gannetry is gannetries.

Words near gannetry in the dictionary

  1. gannet
  2. gannet's bath
  3. ganneted
  4. ganneting
  5. gannetries
  6. gannetry
  7. gannets
  8. gannets' bath
  9. Gannett
  10. Gannett Peak
  11. gannin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gannetry (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gannetry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gannetry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.