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gao

UK/ɡaʊ/US/ˈɡɑ.oʊ/

gao is the alternative form of gau.

Meaning of gau

Adjective

gau (not comparable)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial) Strong (used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”)).
    • Kopi Gau
  2. (Singapore, broadly, colloquial, uncommon) Thick; having a strong or overwhelming flavour.
    • But for all the eggs and liao (ingredients) you have, it isn’t gao (strong).2019 August 24, Yeo Boon Ping, quoting Zachary Tang, “If Zi Char Dishes Were In A Battle Royale, Which Would Come Out Tops?”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Gao

Gao (countable and uncountable, plural Gaos)

  1. A surname.
    • At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.[1979, Hilary J. Beattie, “Land and taxation”, in Land and Lineage in China: A Study of Tʻung-chʻeng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Chʻing Dynasties, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gao

Gao

  1. A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: GAO

GAO

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Government Accountability Office (or its former name, General Accounting Office).
    • The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it “withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy,’” said Thomas Armstrong, the GAO’s general counsel. But the GAO rejected that argument.2020 January 16, Jeremy Herb, “Government watchdog concludes Trump administration broke law by withholding Ukraine aid”, in CNN

Forms of gao

Adjective
comparativemore gao
superlativemost gao
Proper noun
pluralGaos
alternative formGau
alternative formKao

Origin of gao

From Mandarin 高 (Gāo).

Phrases with gao

Words that rhyme with gao

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about gao

What does gao mean?
Gao means a surname.
What is gao the alternative form of?
Gao is the alternative form of gau.
What part of speech is gao?
Gao is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gao?
Gao is pronounced /ɡaʊ/ (UK).

Words near gao in the dictionary

  1. Ganzhou
  2. ganzies
  3. ganzy
  4. ganzá
  5. ganzás
  6. gao
  7. gao dim
  8. gao lak
  9. gao luk
  10. Gaocheng
  11. Gaocun

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gao (page history and authors); Gao (page history and authors); GAO (page history and authors); gau (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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