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google¹
- /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
Sounds like Google, googol, gugel · Rhymes with -uːɡəl
Where it comes from
Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
verb googles · googling · googled
- To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
- Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
- Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
google²
- /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
Sounds like Google, googol, gugel · Rhymes with -uːɡəl
Where it comes from
From Google (“search engine operated by Google LLC”).
noun googles · Google
- An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine. Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
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A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Similar: Google hit, ghit
verb googles · googling · googled · Google
- To search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine. Tom googles all of his prospective girlfriends.
- To search for (something) on the Internet using any comprehensive search engine. I googled him but there were no references to him on the Internet.
- To be locatable in a search of the Internet. His name googles.
google³
- /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
Sounds like Google, googol, gugel · Rhymes with -uːɡəl
Where it comes from
See googol.
number
- Misspelling of googol
Google⁴
- /ˈɡuː.ɡəl/
Sounds like google, googol · Rhymes with -uːɡəl
Where it comes from
An accidental misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.
proper noun
- A particular Internet company. Google is one of several Big Tech firms that has made an aggressive push into gaming in recent years, along with Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB).
- Google Search, a very popular search engine operated by the company of the same name. He did some research on Google for his history project.
verb Googles · Googling · Googleing · Google-ing · Googled
- Alternative letter-case form of google Google Damien and you will find a director of music videos and commercials. Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: valley, adsense, adwords, googlize, oogle, google-bomb, goop, glob, googlewash, gaum, goon, gorm, glom, soogie, gyrify, gawm
Translations
Every language
noun Internet search performed on the Google search engine
| Español | googleada |
|---|---|
| Português | pesquisa, googlada |
| Français | googliser |
| Italiano | googlata, gugolata |
| Ελληνικά | γκουγκλιά gkougkliá |
| Русский | гуглопо́иск guglopóisk, гугле́ние guglénije |
noun Internet search performed on any search engine
| 日本語 | 検索 kensaku |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 搜索 sōusuǒ |
| Français | recherche |
| Italiano | ricerca |
noun match obtained by a query in the Google search engine
| Ελληνικά | γκουγκλιά gkougkliá |
|---|
verb to search for (something) on the Internet using the Google search engine
| Español | googlear, guglear |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | ググる guguru, グーグる gūguru |
| 中文 | 谷歌 gǔgē |
| हिन्दी | गूगल करना gūgal karnā, गूगलियाना gūgaliyānā |
| Português | pesquisar no Google, googlar, guglar, googlear |
| Français | googler, gougler, googliser, google-iser, googoliser, googueuliser |
| Deutsch | googeln, googlen |
| Italiano | googlare, gugolare |
| Ελληνικά | γκουγκλάρω gkougkláro, γκουγκλίζω gkougklízo |
| Română | a gugăli, a googăli |
| Русский | гу́глить gúglitʹ, загу́глить zagúglitʹ, погу́глить pogúglitʹ |
| עברית | גיגל gigél |
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title = {google},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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