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gar¹

  • /ɡɑː/ UK
  • /ɡɑɹ/ US

Sounds like Gar · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

Clipping of garfish, from Middle English gar (“spear”) + fish. Compare pike.

noun gars

  1. Canada, US, especially Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws. A great gar plunged with a loud splash into the water hole.
  2. Ireland, UK, especially A garfish, Belone belone.

gar²

  • /ɡɑː/ UK
  • /ɡɑɹ/ US

Sounds like Gar · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare yare; but also Old Cornish gorra (“put, place, set”).

verb gars · garring · gart

  1. UK, dialectal To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].

GAR³

proper noun

  1. US, abbreviation, historical, initialism, obsolete Initialism of Grand Army of the Republic He was a Yankee and they say he would not hang a man who had been in the G.A.R.

    Similar: G.A.R., G. A. R.

noun GARs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of glycineamide ribonucleotide
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of glutathione amide reductase
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of gross annual revenue

Gar⁴

Sounds like gar

Where it comes from

From Tibetan སྒར (sgar).

proper noun

  1. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China. No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak.

    Similar: Ga'er, Senge Tsangpo

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: garfish, needlefish, billfish, garpike, lepisosteus osseus, rick, gang, longnose, resident, whoa, neighbor, rbm, jun, loch, gahr, hola

Translations

Every language

noun a North or Central American fish of the family Lepisosteidae

Portuguêsgar, peixe-lagarto
DeutschKnochenhecht
Русскийпа́нцирник páncirnik, па́нцирная щу́ка páncirnaja ščúka

noun the European fish Belone belone

Portuguêspeixe-agulha, agulha
Ελληνικάζαργάνα zargána
Русскийсарга́н sargán

name county

中文噶爾 /噶尔 Gá'ěr

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@misc{gar_2026,
  title = {gar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}