GAUL
Dictionary entry overview: What does Gaul mean?
• GAUL (noun)
The noun GAUL has 3 senses:
1. a person of French descent
2. a Celt of ancient Gaul
3. an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
Familiarity information: GAUL used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• GAUL (noun)
Meaning:
A person of French descent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Gaul; frog
Hypernyms ("Gaul" is a kind of...):
French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman (a person of French nationality)
Meaning:
A Celt of ancient Gaul
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Gaul" is a kind of...):
Celt; Kelt (a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gaul"):
Galatian (a native or inhabitant of Galatia in Asia Minor (especially a member of a people believed to have been Gauls who conquered Galatia in the 3rd century BC))
Meaning:
An ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Gallia; Gaul
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
