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gon

contractionnounnounattested in dialogue

  • //ɡən//
  • //ɡoʊn//
  • //ɡɔn//
  • /[ɡõ(ʊ)]/

One hundredth of a right angle: a gradian.

contraction

  1. 1

    Variant of gonnainformalAlternative form of gonna.

    I’m gon be there around four.

Etymology

Clipping of gonna. Compare Middle English gon, dialectal gan, Dutch gaan.

noun

  1. 1

    One hundredth of a right angle: a gradian.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). More in Wikipedia at gradian § History and name.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of gondola carAbbreviation of gondola car.

Etymology

Clipping.

Forms

plural
gons
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).