Gazelle

Definitions: Gazelle

Gazelle

Noun

1. Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes.

Date "gazelle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Velocity	Eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe, squirrel, camel bird, chickaree, chipmunk, hackee, ostrich, scorcher.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gazelle

English words defined with "gazelle": Ahu, Algazel, Antidorcas euchore, Antidorcas marsupialis, Ariel, Ariel gazelle ♦ Bezoar ♦ Corinne ♦ Gazel, Gazella subgutturosa, Gazella thomsoni, gazelle hound ♦ Jairou ♦ Kevin, Korin ♦ Mohr ♦ Nagor ♦ springbok, springbuck ♦ Thomson's gazelle. (references)

Specialty definitions using "gazelle": 96034 ♦ Dorcas ♦ Zibia. (references)

Etymologies containing "gazelle": Oryx. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Gazelle" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (gazelle), German (gazelle).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Trees . And we interrogated a gazelle. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) Look, I'm sure you were a Gazelle. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)
Movie/TV Titles	The Gazelle (1996)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Gazelle (reference) Smith's Gazelle (reference) Some Tame Gazelle (reference) The Beduins' Gazelle (reference) The gazelle and the hunter : a folk tale from Persia (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Dream of the Gazelle (reference) Gazelle (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Southern Fur Seal -- Arctocephalus gazella Peters and Arctocephalus elegans Peters. As seen at New Amsterdam Island. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 3. Library Call Number C/L G373 H.Credit: Treasures of the Library.		Phalacrocorax verrucosus -- a type of cormorant. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 9. Library Call Number C/L G373 H.Credit: Treasures of the Library.
	Delphinus (Steno) perspicillatus Peters. Observed in the Atlantic Ocean at 32 29 South Latitude, 2 West Longitude. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 9. Library Call Number C/L G373 H.Credit: Treasures of the Library.		Figure 14. Meyer bottle, invented by Heinrich Adolph Meyer, of the Commission of Kiel, and built by Carl Seeman. A and B are deep water set up; A descending , B at the bottom; C shallow-water setup descending, D ascending. These bottles were used during the POMMERANIA expedition in the North Sea in 1872 and in 1874 during the GAZELLE circumnavigation of the Earth.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Egypt	Military goods produced in Egypt include: small caliber and heavy ammunition; mortars, mines, grenades and other explosives; antitank rockets; rocket motors; radars and electronic equipment; smoke and pyrotechnic devices, rifles, pistols (Beretta licensee) and machine guns; jet trainer aircraft (Alpha and Tucano); armored personnel carriers; Alpha jet engines; field and aircraft communications equipment; Gazelle helicopters and engines; gyroscopes; weapon sights; binoculars; periscopes; tanks; MLRs; and artillery pieces. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Gazelle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.39% of the time. "Gazelle" is used about 72 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)	76.39%	55	45,713
Noun (proper)	23.61%	17	85,106
Total	100.00%	72	N/A

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Zip Code(s): 96034
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Expressions: Gazelle

Expressions using "gazelle": Ariel gazelle ♦ gazelle hound ♦ Thomson's gazelle ♦ Waller's gazelle ♦ white gazelle. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "gazelle": gazelle-inhabited, gazelle-like, gazelle-sized.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gazelle

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
gazelle	1,301
tony little gazelle	360
tony littles gazelle	141
freestyle gazelle	137
gazelle elite	135
gazelle freestyle elite	105
tony little s gazelle	103
adidas gazelle	73
gazelle edge	51
gazelle exercise	50
gazelle exercise equipment	39
gazelle glider	34
gazelle exercise machine	28
tony gazelle	24
tony littles freestyle gazelle	23
gazelle sports	22
tony little freestyle gazelle	18
gazelle picture	18
gazelle fitness	15
gazelle trainer	14
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gazelle

Language		Translations for "gazelle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		gazelë. (various references)

Arabic		‏غزال, ‏ظبي (antelope, deer, elk, fallow deer, mountain goat, ram, stag). (various references)

Bulgarian		газела. (various references)

Czech		gazela. (various references)

Danish		Dorcasgazelle (dorcas gazelle). (various references)

Dutch		gazel. (various references)

Esperanto		gazelo. (various references)

Farsi		غزال , اهوی کوهی (Deer), بزکوهی (Antelope, Chamois). (various references)

Finnish		gaselli. (various references)

French		gazelle. (various references)

German		gazelle. (various references)

Greek		γκαζέλλα, είδοσ αντιλόπησ (steenbok). (various references)

Hebrew		עופר (young deer), איל�" שלוח�", צבי�" (doe, hind), צבי (antelope, deer, stag). (various references)

Hungarian		gazella. (various references)

Indonesian		rusa betina (hind, roe). (various references)

Italian		gazzella. (various references)

Manx		gaselle. (various references)

Pig Latin		azellegay

Portuguese		terraço (balcony, gaze, observe, platform, terrace). (various references)

Romanian		gazelã. (various references)

Russian		газель (springbok). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		gazela. (various references)

Spanish		gacela (springbok), de gacela. (various references)

Swedish		gasell. (various references)

Thai		ละมั่ง. (various references)

Turkish		ceylan, ceylân, ahu. (various references)

Turkmen		keяik. (various references)

Ukranian		газель. (various references)

Welsh		gafrewig (antelope). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gazelle

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. ma�da. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bubalis, bubalorum, bubalum, bubalus, dorcas, dorimini, Gazella dama, Gazella dorcas, Gazella gazella cuvieri, Gazella leptoceros, oryx, oryx, origis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gazelle

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gazelle": gazelles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gazelle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aazella, Azelle, gabelle, gacela, Garelli, Gasele, Gateley, gazedle, gazell, gesellen, Ghazala, Ghazalah, Gianelli, giselle, guelle, Gzhel, Mazelle, Nazelle, Pazelli. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gazelle"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "gazelle" (pronounced guze"l)
4	-u z e" l	Mademoiselle.
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Anagrams: Gazelle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-z"
	-1 letter: allege.
	-2 letters: aglee, allee, eagle, glaze, legal.
	-3 letters: agee, alee, egal, gale, gall, gaze, geez, glee, laze, leal, zeal.
	-4 letters: age, ale, all, eel, ell, gae, gal, gee, gel, lag, lea, lee, leg, lez, zag, zee.
	-5 letters: ae, ag, al, el, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-l-l-z"
	+1 letter: gazelles, legalize.
	+2 letters: legalized, legalizer, legalizes.
	+3 letters: allegorize, illegalize, legalizers, teazelling.
	+4 letters: allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes, illegalized, illegalizes.
	+5 letters: allegorizers.
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