Word.ws English Dictionary

goeland

goeland noun: a white tern, of species Gygis alba.

Noun

goeland (plural goelands)

  1. (obsolete) A white tern, of species Gygis alba.

Forms of goeland

pluralgoelands

Origin of goeland

From French goéland.

Questions about goeland

What does goeland mean?
Goeland means a white tern, of species Gygis alba.
What part of speech is goeland?
Goeland is a noun.
What is the plural of goeland?
The plural of goeland is goelands.

Words near goeland in the dictionary

  1. Goehring
  2. Goehrings
  3. Goeke
  4. Goekes
  5. goel
  6. goeland
  7. goelands
  8. Goeldi's monkey
  9. Goeldi's monkeys
  10. goelette
  11. goelettes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: goeland (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: “goeland.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/goeland. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.