gazelle
/ɡəˈzɛl/
gazelle noun: an antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
Noun
gazelle (plural gazelles or gazelle)
- An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
- “One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Forging Bonds of Hate and ——?”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 26
Verb
gazelle (third-person singular simple present gazelles, present participle gazelling, simple past and past participle gazelled)
- To leap like a gazelle.
- And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon...1917, Marion Hill, chapter 2, in McAllister’s Grove, page 21
- The biplane gazelled into the air.1982, J. G. Ballard, “Memories of the Space Age”, in Memories of the Space Age, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, published 1988, page 151
- To go fast; to speed; to rush.
- Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]1990, Kim Stanley Robinson, Pacific Edge, page 90
- I actually heard the air move as about five people gazelled towards Lord Mandelson to try to stop another of his ill-timed leaks.2017, Eddie Mair, A Good Face for Radio: Confessions of a Radio Head, pages 10-11
Proper noun capitalized: Gazelle
Gazelle
gazelle meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada
gazelle in Tamil
- antelope
- விண்மீன் viṇmīṉ
gazelle in Urdu
- gazelle
- آہو āhū
gazelle in Telugu
- antelope
- గజెల్ gajel
gazelle in Kannada
- antelope
- ಗಸೆಲ್ gasel
More languagesFewer languages
- gazelle in Gujarati
- ગઝેલ gajhel
- gazelle in Pashto
- آهو āhu
- gazelle in Tagalog
- gasela
- gazelle in Arabic
- غَزَال ḡazāl, ظَبِي ẓabī
- gazelle in Persian
- آهو âhu, غزال ġazâl
- gazelle in Thai
- ละมั่ง
- gazelle in Vietnamese
- linh dương
Examples of gazelle in a sentence
- Despite the watchful nature of the passing gazelles, the leopard lay unspotted under the bush.
- The lion moved in on the gazelle.
- Like shifties and frogstands, ollies and gazelle flips, up and down ten-foot ramps.
Forms of gazelle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gazelles |
| plural | gazelle |
| alternative form (obsolete) | gazel |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | gazelles |
| present participle | gazelling |
| past participle | gazelled |
| past | gazelled |
Origin of gazelle
Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).
Words formed from gazelle
- addra gazelle
- Arabian gazelle
- Arabian sand gazelle
- ariel gazelle
- black-tailed gazelle
- Clarke's gazelle
- Cuvier's gazelle
- dama gazelle
- dorcas gazelle
- Eritrean gazelle
- Erlanger's gazelle
- gazelle in the garden
- gazelle on the lawn
- gazellelike
- giraffe gazelle
- goitered gazelle
- Grant's gazelle
- Heuglin's gazelle
- Indian gazelle
- mhorr gazelle
- Mongalla gazelle
- Mongolian gazelle
- mountain gazelle
- Neumann's gazelle
- Palestine mountain gazelle
- Przewalski's gazelle
- red-fronted gazelle
- rhim gazelle
- Robert's gazelle
- sand gazelle
- slender-horned gazelle
- Soemmerring's gazelle
- Speke's gazelle
- Thomson's gazelle
- Tibetan gazelle
- true gazelle
- Waller's gazelle
Phrases with gazelle
Words that rhyme with gazelle
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hell
- hotel
- repel
- smell
- cartel
- dell
- pell
- quell
- as well
- au naturel
- dwell
- expel
- fell
- gel
- La Rochelle
- lol
- oversell
- stell
- wel
- ABDL
- dispel
- ell
- kell
- knell
- mell
- personnel
- quenelle
- snell
- undersell
- yell
- belle
- death knell
- del
- farewell
- flotel
- foretell
- impel
- mademoiselle
- marcel
- mel
- morell
- Moselle
- motel
- NFL
- overswell
- propel
- pucelle
- rappel
Questions about gazelle
- What does gazelle mean?
- Gazelle means an antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
- What is gazelle in Tamil?
- Gazelle in Tamil is விண்மீன் (viṇmīṉ). See Gazelle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is gazelle?
- Gazelle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gazelle?
- Gazelle is pronounced /ɡəˈzɛl/.
- What is the plural of gazelle?
- The plural of gazelle is gazelles.
Words near gazelle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gazelle (page history and authors); Gazelle (page history and authors); آہو (Urdu) (page history and authors); آهو (Pashto) (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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