Word.ws English Dictionary

gds

gds is the abbreviation of goods.

Meaning of goods

Noun

goods pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) That which is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
    Synonyms:
    wares
  2. (UK, plural, plural-only) Freight, as opposed to passengers.
  3. (informal, plural, plural-only, often preceded by the) Something authentic, important, or revealing.
    Synonyms:
    evidence, fact
  4. (plural, plural-only, slang) The female body, especially when seen as desirable.
    • And she got the goods / And she got that ass, I got to look, sorry!2007, “Good Life”, in Graduation, performed by Kanye West ft. T-Pain
  5. (plural, plural-only, slang) The male genitals.
    • […]that enormous machine of his[…] which, together with it bottom dependence, the inestimable bulse of ladies jewels, formed a grand showout of goods indeed!1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 210
  6. (informal, plural, plural-only) A person or animal, etc., with reference to its characteristics.
    • The Colonel's horse is good goods.1913, The Lone Hand, volume 12, page 37
    Synonyms:
    piece of goods

Noun capitalized: GDS

GDS (countable and uncountable, plural GDSs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Global Distribution System.
    • You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets. This move was an...2012, Kaihan Krippendorff, “Today's Business Revolution”, in Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 21
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Graph Dynamical System.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of general dental services.

Proper noun capitalized: GDS

GDS

  1. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Government Digital Service.

Forms of gds

pluralGDSs

Questions about gds

What is gds the abbreviation of?
Gds is the abbreviation of goods.
What part of speech is gds?
Gds can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gds?
The plural of gds is GDSs.

Words near gds in the dictionary

  1. GDPs
  2. GDQ
  3. GDR
  4. GDrive
  5. GDRs
  6. gds
  7. GDSs
  8. GDW
  9. GDWs
  10. Gdynia
  11. Gdynian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gds (page history and authors); GDS (page history and authors); goods (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: “gds.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gds. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.