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GAO¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Government Accountability Office (or its former name, General Accounting Office). The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it “withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy,’” said Thomas Armstrong, the GAO’s general counsel. But the GAO rejected that argument.

gao²

adjective more gao · most gao

  1. Singapore, alternative, colloquial Alternative form of gau

Gao³

  • /ɡaʊ/ UK, US

Sounds like Gau, gau, Gow, gow · Rhymes with -aʊ

Where it comes from

From Mandarin 高 (Gāo).

proper noun Gaos · Gau · Kao

  1. countable, uncountable A surname. At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.

Gao⁴

  • /ˈɡɑː.əʊ/ UK
  • /ˈɡaʊ/ UK
  • /ˈɡɑ.oʊ/ US
  • /ˈɡaʊ/ US

Rhymes with -ɑːəʊ, -aʊ

proper noun

  1. A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: cao, antiaircraft, higher, high-tech, ming, height, high, goh, senior, highly, bog, kao, goa, kaohsiung, gaw, zhao

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"gao." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gao. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

gao. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gao

Chicago

"gao." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gao.

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@misc{gao_2026,
  title = {gao},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gao},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}