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Definition: Gander |
GanderNoun1. Mature male goose. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gander" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Gander \Gan"der\, noun. [from Anglo-Saxon expression gandra, ganra, akin to Prov. German gander, ganter, and English goose, gannet. See Goose.]. (references) |
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Literature | Gander (g hard). What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Both must be treated exactly alike. Applesauce is just as good for one as the other. (Anglo-Saxon gós, related to gons and gans. The d and r of gan-a are merely euphonic; the a being the masculine suffix. Thus han-a was the masculine of hen. Latin, anser.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Equality | Phrase: it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing; what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. |
Man | Drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion; gibcat, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gander |
| English words defined with "gander": Steg ♦ unscheduled. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "gander": GANDER MONTH ♦ Sauce to the Goose is Sauce to the Gander. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gander": Goose. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gander" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Dutch (gander). |
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Screenplays | I think that's what's good for the goose is good for the gander. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) What is a gander, anyway (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Hey, get a gander at them moccasins (Back to the Future Part III; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Goofy Goofy Gander (1950) A Gander at Mother Goose (1940) The Goose and the Gander (1935) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Gander" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.35% of the time. "Gander" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.35% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.76% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "gander" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gander | Last name | 400 | 19,185 |
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Expressions using "gander": take a gander ♦ take a gander at smth. ♦ what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "gander"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | patok, leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), i martuar (married, wedded). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظرة (blush, cast, catch sight, eye, gaze, glimpse, look, manhole), ذكر الأوز, المغفل (boob, booby, daw, dullard, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, featherbrain, gaby, gawk, idiot, jackass, lout, lunkhead, moron, mug, mugful, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, noodle, numskull, simpleton, sucker, zany). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гъсок. (various references) | |
Czech | houser, blázen (fool, freak, lunatic, nut, nutcase). (various references) | |
Danish | gase. (various references) | |
Dutch | gent (drake, Ghent), gander, mannetjesgans. (various references) | |
Farsi | مردمتاهل , غازنر, ادم نادان (Ignoramus). (various references) | |
Finnish | hanhi (goose, goose gander). (various references) | |
French | jars. (various references) | |
German | gänserich, ganter. (various references) | |
Greek | αρσενική χήνα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אוז. (various references) | |
Hungarian | gúnár (goosey, goosey-gander, goosey-goosey). (various references) | |
Indonesian | angsa jantan. (various references) | |
Italian | papero (Gosling), oca maschio. (various references) | |
Manx | kellagh guiy. (various references) | |
Norwegian | gasse. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andergay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ganso (goose, gosling). (various references) | |
Romanian | gãgãuţã (booby, dupe, innocent, ninny, nitwit, noddy, nut, rook, spoony, sucker), gânsac (Drake), prostovan. (various references) | |
Russian | гусак;гандер, гусак, глупец (buzzard, cuckoo, dweeb, fool, lump), олух (boob, booby, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, gowk, jobbernowl, jolterhead, loggerhead, meathead, nitwit, numskull, owl, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap-head, schmuck). (various references) | |
Scottish | g nradh (a gander). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | gusan, glupan (blockhead, bonehead, boob, booby, clod-poll, coot, dimwit, dope, driveler, driveller, dunce, dunderhead, fathead, fat-head, goof, jerk, loon, lout, lug, lummox, lunkhead, mutton head, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, pin head, pinhead, pumpkin-head, thickhead, tomfool, twit). (various references) | |
Spanish | ganso (goose). (various references) | |
Swedish | gåskarl. (various references) | |
Thai | การเหลือบ"ู, ห่านตัวผู้, มองแบบสอ"รู้สอ"เห็น. (various references) | |
Turkish | göz atma, kaz (goose), erkek kaz, bakış (blink, dekko, eye, glance, look, regard, slant, view), ahmak (addled, ass, blockhead, boob, bumpkin, cabbagehead, chucklehead, chumpish, clot, country bumpkin, crass, cretin, deadly dull, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dreary, dullish, dumb bell, dunderhead, dunderheaded, fathead, fool, foolish, gawk, gawky, goat, goof, goose, greenhorn, Gubbins, half wit, half-witted, hayseed, idiot, jackass, jerk, josser, kookaburra, light in the head, loon, lummox, lump, muggins, mutt, mutton head, noddy, numskull, prune, pudding-head, sap, saphead, sappy, schlepper, simp, soft, stupid, twerp). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гусак (goose), одружений (married), погляд (angle, aspect, belief, blush, eye, look, mind, notion, opinion, sight, view, viewpoint), дурень (ass, blunderhead, bone head, booby, bullhead, changeling, chump, clod, clot, dimwit, dolt, donkey, fool, fop, imbecile, jackass, moke, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, omadhaun, owl, pinhead, pudding-head, softy, stupe, stupid, tomfool, you imbecile). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | con ngỗng đực người khờ dại. (various references) | |
Welsh | ceiliagwydd. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gander": gandered, gandering, ganders. (additional references) | |
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"Gander" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaarder, Gadara, Gader, Gadir, Gadney, gadred, gadter, gaider, gand, Gandar, Ganden, Gandia, Gandon, gandor, ganed, ganery, Ganner, ganter, Gantzer, Gardar, garder, Gasnier, Gayda, gebder, Gedir, Gencer, genda, Gendje, gendre, gendrer, Ghandour, Ginda, ginder, glandder, glande, glander, gnade, goader, goder, Gonder, Goyder, gsnder, Gundar, Gunde, Gundem, Gwadar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gander" (pronounced ga"nder) |
| 4 | -a" n d er | Alexander, Bander, blander, brander, candor, commander, coriander, grander, Lander, meander, pander, salamander, sander, slander, Stander, Zander. |
| 3 | -n d er | Ender, engender, asunder, attainder, auslander, bartender, bender, binder, blender, blinder, blonder, blunder, bookbinder, bounder, bystander, calamander, calendar, cinder, cofounder, Condor, contender, cylinder, defender, extender, Fender, finder, flounder, fonder, founder, gender, gerrymander, grinder, highlander, hinder, islander, kinder, launder, lavender, lender, mainlander, minder, offender, oleander, pathfinder, Pinder, plunder, ponder, pounder, pretender, rejoinder, remainder, reminder, render, responder, rounder, sender, Sidewinder, slender, sounder, Spender, splendor, squander, sunder, surrender, suspender, tender, thunder, tinder, transponder, under, vendor, viewfinder, wander, weekender, winder, wonder, yonder. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: danger, garden, ranged. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: anger, denar, grade, grand, raged, range, redan, regna. | |
-2 letters: aged, ager, dang, dare, darn, dean, dear, drag, dreg, earn, egad, gaed, gaen, gane, gear, gnar, grad, gran, nard, near, nerd, rage, rand, rang, read, rend. | |
-3 letters: age, and, ane, are, dag, den, ear, end, eng, era, erg, ern, gad, gae, gan, gar, ged. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: angered, dangers, dangler, deraign, derange, dragnet, enraged, ganders, gardens, gnarled, gnarred, gradine, grained, grandee, grander, granted, grenade, groaned, pranged, reading. | |
+2 letters: adhering, androgen, arranged, bandager, bearding, breading, dangered, danglers, deairing, deraigns, deranged, deranges, derating, dognaper, dragline, dragnets, dragomen, dragonet, drainage, dreading, dreaming, dungaree, endanger, engraved, enlarged, gadarene, gandered, gardened, gardener, gardenia, garnered, gendarme, glanders, gradient, gradines, grandame, grandees, grandest, grandeur, grenades, hangared, jargoned, margined, midrange, organdie, readding, readings, readying, redating, regained, rehanged, renegade, renegado, treading, unargued, underage, ungraced, ungraded, wrangled. | |
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