how to pronounce gad

/ɡæd/

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An example use of gad in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

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meanings of gad

noun:

One who roams about idly; a gadabout.
A metal bar.
A greedy and/or stupid person.
An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, perhaps equivalent to the bloom, perhaps weighing around 100 pounds.
A rod or stick, such as a fishing rod, a measuring rod, or a rod used to drive cattle with.
A sharp-pointed object; a goad.
A pointed metal tool for breaking or chiselling rock.
A spike on a gauntlet; a gadling.
Acronym of generalized anxiety disorder.

name:

One of the Israelite tribes mentioned in the Torah, descended from Gad.
A male given name from Hebrew.
The seventh son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
A surname.

interjection:

An exclamatory interjection roughly equivalent to by God, goodness gracious, for goodness' sake.

verb:

To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner.

gad frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word gad occurs in english on average 0.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.