Definitions for Gander

Gander gan·der

Spelling: [gan-der]
IPA: /ˈgæn dər/

Gander is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 155 anagrams from letters in Gander (adegnr).

Definitions for Gander

noun

  1. the male of the goose. Compare goose (def 2).
  2. Slang. a look:
  3. a town in E Newfoundland, in Canada: airport on the great circle route between New York and northern Europe.

Origin of Gander

before 1000; 1910-15 for def 2; Middle English; Old English gan(d)ra; cognate with Middle Low German ganre, Dutch gander; akin to goose, German Gans

Examples for Gander

The goose and gander heard it too, and ran and looked down into a deep hole.

Then you get a gander at the full monty, as it were, and he looks like someone inflated him from the sternum down.

Nurse had gone down cellar and the gander was in the goose-house.

What was sauce for the Michael Dukakis goose, is sauce for the Michael Huckabee gander.

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: take that in your thought too.

Under both the law and the ethics governing armed conflicts, sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Headwinds forced a landing at gander, in Newfoundland, in the middle of a blizzard.

Just take a gander at trips planned for Richard Nixon by Henry Kissinger or for George H. W. Bush by James Baker.

Nurse picked Tommy up and shut the door so the gander could not get in.

He did not dare to go out for fear the gander would bite him again.

Word Value for Gander
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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