gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gŭl
ipa: /ˈɡʌl/
rhymes: -ʌl
Forms: form: gulls
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gulle, from a Brythonic language (compare Breton gouelan, Welsh gwylan, and Cornish golan), from Proto-Brythonic *gwuɨlann, from Proto-Celtic *weilannā (“seagull”).
Cognate with Old Irish foílenn, Scottish Gaelic faoileag. Compare French goéland, a borrowing from Breton. Eclipsed Middle English lare (borrowed from Latin larus) and Middle English mewe (from Old English mæw).
Senses: examples: text: The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.
ref: 1947 January–February, O. S. Nock, “‘The Aberdonian’ in Wartime”, in The Railway Magazine, volume 93, number 567, page 8:
text: Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again.[…]For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.
ref: 1970, Richard Bach, “Part One”, in Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story, Macmillan; republished as complete edition, Scribner, 2014 October 21, →ISBN, page 4:
synonyms: mew
seabird
seagull
seamew
glosses: A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
Derived terms: word: as the gull flies
taxonomic: Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
word: Audouin's gull
word: black-backed gull
taxonomic: Chroicocephalus ridibundus
word: black-headed gull
taxonomic: Chroicocephalus philadelphia
word: Bonaparte's gull
taxonomic: Larus cachinnans
word: Caspian gull
taxonomic: Larus canus
word: common gull
taxonomic: Larus dominicanus
word: Dominican gull
word: European herring gull
taxonomic: Rynchops nigra
word: flood gull
taxonomic: Leucophaeus pipixcan
word: Franklin's gull
taxonomic: Larus hyperboreus
word: glaucous gull
taxonomic: Larus marinus
word: great black-backed gull
word: greater black-backed gull
taxonomic: Gelochelidon nilotica
word: gull-billed tern
taxonomic: Stercorarius pomarius
word: gull chaser
taxonomic: Scaevola plumieri
word: gullfeed
word: gull-wing
word: gullwing
word: Heermann's gull
taxonomic: Larus spp.
word: herring gull
taxonomic: Larus glaucoides
word: Iceland gull
taxonomic: Pagophila eburnea
word: ivory gull
taxonomic: Larus dominicanus
word: kelp gull
taxonomic: Larus marinus
word: land gull
taxonomic: Leucophaeus atricilla
word: laughing gull
taxonomic: Larus fuscus
word: lesser black-backed gull
taxonomic: Larus minutus
word: little gull
taxonomic: Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
word: Mediterranean gull
taxonomic: Larus canus
word: mew gull
taxonomic: Larus pacificus
word: Pacific gull
taxonomic: Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus
word: Pallas's gull
taxonomic: Chroicocephalus scopulinus
word: red-billed gull
taxonomic: Larus delawarensis
word: ring-billed gull
alt: skua
word: robber gull
taxonomic: Rhodostethia rosea
word: Ross's gull
taxonomic: Xema sabini
word: Sabine's gull
word: sea-gull
taxonomic: Laridae spp.
word: seagull
word: shark-gull
taxonomic: Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
word: silver gull
taxonomic: Larus schistisagus
word: slaty-backed gull
taxonomic: Chroicocephalus genei
word: slender-billed gull
taxonomic: Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus
word: white-eyed gull
taxonomic: Larus michahellis
word: yellow-legged gull