"Gath" meaning in English

See Gath in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Forms: Gaths [plural]
Etymology: Various origins: * A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname. * A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname. * Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Gath}} German Gath, {{der|en|gml|gate||street, alley}} Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Gath (plural Gaths)
  1. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Gath-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Etymology: From Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”), from a Philistine word such as Gīt. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|he|גַּת|t=wine press}} Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Gath
  1. A city in ancient Philistia, home of Goliath, located in the foothills of the Judean Mountains in what is most likely modern-day Israel.
    Sense id: en-Gath-en-name-jQUesre- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Gath"
      },
      "expansion": "German Gath",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gml",
        "3": "gate",
        "4": "",
        "5": "street, alley"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Various origins:\n* A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname.\n* A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname.\n* Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gaths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Gath (plural Gaths)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Gath-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gath"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "גַּת",
        "t": "wine press"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”), from a Philistine word such as Gīt.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Gath",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A city in ancient Philistia, home of Goliath, located in the foothills of the Judean Mountains in what is most likely modern-day Israel."
      ],
      "id": "en-Gath-en-name-jQUesre-",
      "links": [
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ],
        [
          "Philistia",
          "Philistia"
        ],
        [
          "Goliath",
          "Goliath"
        ],
        [
          "Judean Mountains",
          "Judean Mountains"
        ],
        [
          "Israel",
          "Israel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gath"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English surnames from German",
    "English terms borrowed from Hebrew",
    "English terms derived from Hebrew",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "de",
        "3": "Gath"
      },
      "expansion": "German Gath",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gml",
        "3": "gate",
        "4": "",
        "5": "street, alley"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Various origins:\n* A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname.\n* A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname.\n* Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Gaths",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Gath (plural Gaths)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English surnames"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gath"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English proper nouns",
    "English surnames from German",
    "English terms borrowed from Hebrew",
    "English terms derived from Hebrew",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "he",
        "3": "גַּת",
        "t": "wine press"
      },
      "expansion": "Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Hebrew גַּת (“wine press”), from a Philistine word such as Gīt.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Gath",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A city in ancient Philistia, home of Goliath, located in the foothills of the Judean Mountains in what is most likely modern-day Israel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ],
        [
          "Philistia",
          "Philistia"
        ],
        [
          "Goliath",
          "Goliath"
        ],
        [
          "Judean Mountains",
          "Judean Mountains"
        ],
        [
          "Israel",
          "Israel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Gath"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Gath meaning in English (2.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.