google

Syllables: goog·le/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/

google verb: to bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”). Also the misspelling of googol.

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Verb (1)

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

(transitive) To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
(intransitive) Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
(intransitive) Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

Noun

google (plural googles)

(Internet, informal) An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
- Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 51
(Internet, dated, informal) A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
- The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Synonyms:

Google hit, ghit

Verb (2)

google (third-person singular simple present googles, present participle googling, simple past and past participle googled)

(Internet, informal, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine.
- Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- Have fun and keep googling!1998 July 8, Larry Page, “New Features”, in eGroups, archived from the original on 09 Oct 1999
(Internet, broadly, informal, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine.
- I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
(Internet, informal, intransitive) To be locatable in a search of the Internet.
- His name googles.

Proper noun capitalized: Google

Google

(trademark) A particular Internet company.
- Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).2021 February 1, Rishi Iyengar, “Google will stop making video games for its Stadia platform”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2022
(trademark) Google Search, a very popular search engine operated by the company of the same name.
- He did some research on Google for his history project.
- As a house officer you think your registrar is unimpeachably correct and clever, like God maybe, or Google, and you try not to bother them under almost any circumstance.2017, Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor

Verb (3) capitalized: Google

Google (third-person singular simple present Googles, present participle Googling or Googleing or Google-ing, simple past and past participle Googled)

Alternative letter-case form of google.
- Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2
- Eventually, I found myself surfing the web, Google-ing the names of former boyfriends.2005, Pari Noskin Taichert, The Belen Hitch, Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 33

Also used as

google is also the misspelling of googol.

google meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

google in Hindi

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine: गूगल करना gūgal karnā, गूगलियाना gūgaliyānā

google in Tamil

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine: கூகிள் செய் kūkiḷ cey, கூகிள் பண்ணு kūkiḷ paṇṇu

google in Marathi

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine: गूगल करणे gūgal karṇe

google in Urdu

to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine: گُوگَل کَرنا gūgal karnā

More languagesFewer languages

google in Bengali: গুগল করছি gugol korchi
google in Telugu: గుగుల్ చేయ్యి gugul cēyyi
google in Malayalam: ഗൂഗിൾ ചെയ്യൂ gūgiḷ ceyyū
google in Kannada: ಗೂಗಲ್, ಗೂಗಲ್ಗೆ
google in Punjabi: ਗੂਗਲ ਕਰੋ, ਗੁੱਗਲਿੰਗ
google in Gujarati: ગૂગલ કરવુ gūgal karvu
google in Odia: ଗୁଗଲିଂ, ଗୁଗୁଲିଂ, ଗୁଗୁଲ୍ କରନ୍ତୁ
google in Nepali: गूगल गर्नु gūgal garnu
google in Tagalog: i-google
google in Indonesian: googling

Examples of google in a sentence

Google welcomes the decision to not approve the fast track of Microsoft's OOXML.
Google is the all-consuming superpower on the Internet; soon everything will be owned by them.
She began to google up the keywords she had been given.

All 40 example sentences with google

Synonyms of google

Google hit
ghit

Forms of google

Verb
third-person singular present	googles
present participle	googling
past participle	googled
past	googled
third-person singular present	Googles
present participle	Googling
present participle	Googleing
present participle	Google-ing
past participle	Googled
past	Googled
Noun
plural	googles
alternative form	Google

Past tense of google: googled

Origin of google

Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).

From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).

See googol.

Words formed from google

Phrases with google

3 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with google

Questions about google

What does google mean?: Google means to bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
What is google in Hindi?: Google in Hindi is गूगल करना (gūgal karnā), गूगलियाना (gūgaliyānā). See Google meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is google?: Google can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce google?: Google is pronounced /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/.
What is the past tense of google?: The past tense of google is googled.

Words near google in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: google (page history and authors); Google (page history and authors); google (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); google (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); google (Odia, 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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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