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gaol meaning

EN[dʒeɪl] [-eɪl]
WGaol
The old Melbourne gaol
The old Melbourne gaol

    Definition of gaol in English Dictionary

  • NounPLgaols
    1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) Alternative spelling of jail.
      1. ‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
  • VerbSGgaolsPRgaolingPT, PPgaoled
    1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of jail.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
        • Verbs
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        1. en gaoler
        2. en gaols
        3. en gaoled
        4. en gaolor
        5. en gaoling
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of gaol for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "gaol" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb.
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