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Gao

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ɡaʊ//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɡɑː.əʊ//
  • United States//ˈɡɑ.oʊ//
  • United States//ˈɡaʊ//

A surname.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

    At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century.

Etymology

From Mandarin 高 (Gāo).

proper noun

  1. 1

    A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.

Forms

plural
Gaos
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).