gazelle
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gazelle¹
- /ɡəˈzɛl/
Rhymes with -ɛl
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).
noun gazelles · gazelle · gazel
- An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods. “One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.
verb gazelles · gazelling · gazelled · gazel
- To leap like a gazelle. And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon gazell
- To go fast; to speed; to rush. Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]
Gazelle²
proper noun
- A census-designated place in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
Translations
Talk about this word "gazelle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gazelle. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gazelle. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gazelle "gazelle." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gazelle.Cite this
@misc{gazelle_2026,
title = {gazelle},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gazelle},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
