gaud

Speech parts

1. gaud - Noun

2. gaud - Verb

Meaning

Trick; jest; sport.

Deceit; fraud; artifice; device.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket.

To sport or keep festival.

To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colors; to paint.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

novelty bangle bauble trinket gewgaw fallal curio bagatelle toy curiosity ornament trifle plaything bric-a brac kickshaw

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Antonyms

age dust oldness oppressiveness high number significant number

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Hypernyms

adornment

Derivatives

gauded gauding

Anagrams

Dagu GUDA duga

Examples

He graduated from the Porter Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina, from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and from the Medical University of South Carolina, in Charleston, South Carolina. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gaucho-esque gauchoesque Gaucin gaud-day gaudeamurid gaudeamus