gov
/ɡʌv/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
Northern England/ɡʊv/
gov noun: a term of address to a person, usually a stranger or a superior. Also the clipping of government.
Noun (1)
gov (plural govs)
- A term of address to a person, usually a stranger or a superior.
- Synonyms:
- guv
Noun (2) capitalized: GOV
GOV (plural GOVs)
- Initialism of government-owned vehicle.
Also used as
gov is also the clipping of government.
gov is also the clipping of governor.
gov meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
gov in Urdu
- جی او وی
Synonyms of gov
Forms of gov
| plural | govs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | gov. |
| alternative form | gove |
| alternative form | guv |
| plural | GOVs |
Words formed from gov
Phrases with gov
Words that rhyme with gov
- love
- above
- dove
- glove
- shove
- belove
- deglove
- live in the shadow of
- bruv
- fit like a glove
- for want of
- luv
1 more rhymesFewer rhymes
Questions about gov
- What does gov mean?
- Gov means a term of address to a person, usually a stranger or a superior.
- What is gov in Urdu?
- Gov in Urdu is جی او وی. See Gov meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is gov?
- Gov is a noun.
- How do you pronounce gov?
- Gov is pronounced /ɡʌv/.
- What is the plural of gov?
- The plural of gov is govs.
Words near gov in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: gov (page history and authors); GOV (page history and authors); gov (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gov (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gov (Malayalam, 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:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-au-gov.ogg.
Cite this entry: “gov.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gov. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.