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gar

/ɡɑː/US/ɡɑɹ/

gar noun: any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.

Noun (1)

gar (plural gars)

  1. (Canada, US, especially) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
    • A great gar plunged with a loud splash into the water hole.1907, O. Henry, The Princess and the Puma, pages 266–275
    • Gars are long, slender, predatory fishes of quiet waters east of the Rockies.1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128
  2. (Ireland, UK, especially) A garfish, Belone belone.

Verb

gar (third-person singular simple present gars, present participle garring, simple past and past participle gart)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).
    • I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX
    • Farewell to pleasant Dilston Hall, / My father's ancient seat, / A stranger now must call thee his, / Which gars my heart to greet. [...].1807, Robert Surtees, Derwentwater's Farewell, Verse 1

Proper noun (1) capitalized: GAR

GAR

  1. (US, abbreviation, historical, initialism, obsolete) Initialism of Grand Army of the Republic.
    • He was a Yankee and they say he would not hang a man who had been in the G.A.R.1968, Charles Portis, True Grit
    Synonyms:
    G.A.R., G. A. R.

Noun (2) capitalized: GAR

GAR (plural GARs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of glycineamide ribonucleotide.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of glutathione amide reductase.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of gross annual revenue.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gar

Gar

  1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
    • No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak.1972, Kao Yuan-ching, “Changes on the Ari Plateau”, in Great Changes in Tibet [西藏巨变], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 28
    • The figures indicate that Han peoples form 12 per cent of the registered residents of Gar county, and that Tibetans are 87.5 per cent of the county and 97.6 per cent of the prefecture.⁵⁸1994, Graham E. Clarke, “The Movement of Population to the West of China; Tibet and Qinghai”, in Judith M. Brown, Rosemary Foot, editors, Migration: The Asian Experience, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages...
    Synonyms:
    Ga'er, Senge Tsangpo

gar meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

gar in Hindi

गार

gar in Marathi

गार

gar in Urdu

گار

gar in Bengali

গার, গার্
More languagesFewer languages
gar in Telugu
గార్, గర్
gar in Malayalam
ഗാർ, ഗർ
gar in Kannada
ಗಾರ್, ಗರ್, ಗಾರ
gar in Punjabi
ਗਾਰ
gar in Gujarati
ગાર, ગર
gar in Odia
ଗାର୍, ଗାର, ଗାରକୁ
gar in Nepali
गार

Synonyms of gar

  • G.A.R.
  • G. A. R.
  • Ga'er
  • Senge Tsangpo

Forms of gar

Noun
pluralgars
pluralGARs
Verb
third-person singular presentgars
present participlegarring
past participlegart
pastgart

Plural of gar: gars

Origin of gar

Clipping of garfish, from Middle English gare + fish.

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare yare; but also Old Cornish gorra (“put, place, set”).

From Tibetan སྒར (sgar).

Words formed from gar

Phrases with gar

Words that rhyme with gar

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Questions about gar

What does gar mean?
Gar means any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.
What is gar in Hindi?
Gar in Hindi is गार. See Gar meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gar?
Gar can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gar?
Gar is pronounced /ɡɑː/ (UK).
What is the plural of gar?
The plural of gar is gars.

Words near gar in the dictionary

  1. gapsite
  2. gapsites
  3. Gapsted
  4. gaptoothed
  5. gapy
  6. gar
  7. Gar and Starter
  8. gar-fish
  9. Gara
  10. garaad
  11. garaads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gar (page history and authors); GAR (page history and authors); Gar (page history and authors); gar (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gar (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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