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geason

/ˈɡiːzən/

geason adjective: rare; uncommon; scarce.

Adjective

geason (comparative more geason, superlative most geason)

  1. (dialectal, rare) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
    • This white falcon rare and gaison,
      This bird shineth so bright.16th century, Nicholas Udall, Falcon White
    • […] ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon […]1588, George Puttenham, “Of Proportion”, in The Arte of English Poesie; republished as George Gregory Smith, editor, Elizabethan Critical Essays, volume 2, Oxford University Press, 1937, page 119
    Synonyms:
    infrequent
  2. (UK, dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
  3. (dialectal, rare) Unusual; wonderful.

Examples of geason in a sentence

  • Such as this Age, in which all good is geason, […]1591, Edmund Spenser, Visions of the Worlds Vanitie:
  • Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days, / And grow to fume before they taste the fire.1594, Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civil War, act 2; republished as John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, editors, A Select...

Synonyms of geason

Forms of geason

comparativemore geason
superlativemost geason
alternative formgeazon
alternative formgaison
alternative formgessen

Origin of geason

From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaisnī (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to be gaping, yawn”). Cognate with Old High German geisini, keisini (“lack”), a noun, and more remotely with North Frisian gast (“barren”), Low German güst (“barren”).

Questions about geason

What does geason mean?
Geason means rare; uncommon; scarce.
How do you use geason in a sentence?
Such as this Age, in which all good is geason, […]
What part of speech is geason?
Geason is an adjective.
How do you pronounce geason?
Geason is pronounced /ˈɡiːzən/.

Words near geason in the dictionary

  1. geas
  2. geasa
  3. gease
  4. geases
  5. Geashill
  6. geason
  7. geat
  8. Geatish
  9. Geatland
  10. geats
  11. Geauga County

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