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gu

gu is the alternative spelling of gue.

gu is the alternative form of gu..

Meaning of gue

Noun (1)

gue (plural gues)

  1. (Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.

Noun (2)

gue (plural gues)

  1. (obsolete) a rogue
    • Precious gue we'll never part.1612, John Webster, The White Devil

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Noun capitalized: GU

GU

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of general user.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of genitourinary.
    • GU — Had polyuria (large volumes every hour) yesterday; incontinent when paramedics arrived2009, Amy S. Nicholas, Holly S. Divine, “Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and Ketoacidosis”, in Terry L. Schinghammer, Julia M. Koehler, editors, Pharmacotherapy Casebook: A Patient-Focused Approach, 7th...

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Gu

Gu (countable and uncountable, plural Gus)

  1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
    • The comrades of Gu county said: From building a private house to sitting in jail, Xu Peng suffered the consequences of placing profit first as a result of his decadent bourgeois ideology.1985 July 22, “SHANXI INVESTIGATES ILLEGAL HOUSING CONSTRUCTION”, in China Report: Political, Sociological and Military Affairs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 119
    • According to the recent years study and productive practice of LV Centinula edodes of Gu county, Shanxi, the key techniques for spring cultivation of lentinula edodes?s high yield and good quality are put forward, including choosing suitable cultivation time , proper cultivars and making a good...2004, Li Yuemei [李月梅], “Key Techniques for Spring Cultivation of Lentinua Edodes?s High Yield and Good Quality [香菇春季栽培高产优质的关键管理技术]”, in Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin [中国农学通报], number 3, →DOI...

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Gu

Gu (plural Gus)

  1. A surname from Chinese.

Forms of gu

Noun
pluralgus
Proper noun
pluralGus
alternative formKu

Origin of gu

From Mandarin 古 (Gǔ).

From either Mandarin 谷 (Gǔ) or 古 (Gǔ), from Chinese.

Phrases with gu

Questions about gu

What does gu mean?
Gu means a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
What is gu the alternative spelling of?
Gu is the alternative spelling of gue.
What part of speech is gu?
Gu can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of gu?
The plural of gu is gus.

Words near gu in the dictionary

  1. GTV
  2. GTVs
  3. GTW
  4. GTWR
  5. GTWRs
  6. gu
  7. Gu Tian
  8. gu zheng
  9. gu zhengs
  10. Gu'an
  11. gu.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gu (page history and authors); GU (page history and authors); Gu (page history and authors); gue (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.

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