gurney
gurney noun: a stretcher having wheeled legs.
Noun
gurney (plural gurneys)
- A stretcher having wheeled legs.
- The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.
- Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the...2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 22
- Synonyms:
- trolley
Proper noun capitalized: Gurney
Gurney (plural Gurneys)
- A surname.
gurney meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
gurney in Hindi
- गर्नी, गुरनी, गुर्नी
gurney in Tamil
- குர்னி
gurney in Marathi
- गर्नी, गुरनी
gurney in Urdu
- گرنی, گورنی
More languagesFewer languages
- gurney in Bengali
- হাসপাতালের চাকাযুক্ত স্ট্রেচার, গার্নি
- gurney in Telugu
- గుర్నీ
- gurney in Malayalam
- ഗുർണി
- gurney in Kannada
- ಗುರ್ನಿ
- gurney in Punjabi
- ਗਰਨੀ, ਗੁਰਨੀ
- gurney in Gujarati
- ગર્ની, ગુર્ની
- gurney in Nepali
- गार्नी, गर्नी, गुरनी
- gurney in Arabic
- مِحَفَّة miḥaffa
Synonyms of gurney
Forms of gurney
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gurneys |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gurneys |
Origin of gurney
Unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883. For the surname, see Gurney.
English surname of Norman origin, from Gournay-en-Bray in Seine-Maritime, France. Sometimes also from Great Gornhay in Tiverton, Devon, for which see Garnsey.
Words formed from gurney
Phrases with gurney
Words that rhyme with gurney
Questions about gurney
- What does gurney mean?
- Gurney means a stretcher having wheeled legs.
- What is gurney in Hindi?
- Gurney in Hindi is गर्नी, गुरनी, गुर्नी. See Gurney meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is gurney?
- Gurney can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of gurney?
- The plural of gurney is gurneys.
Words near gurney in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: gurney (page history and authors); Gurney (page history and authors); gurney (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gurney (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); gurney (Nepali, 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.
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