GORGE
What does "GORGE" mean?
A narrow, steep-sided valley, usually with a river running through it.
Meanings
- A deep ravine between cliffs or steep rocky walls. The river had carved a gorge a hundred metres deep.
- To eat greedily until completely full. They gorged themselves on cake at the party.
- The throat or gullet (archaic or literary). My gorge rises at the very thought of it. archaic
Did you know?
- When Hamlet says 'my gorge rises at it' over Yorick's skull, 'gorge' means throat - the same root that names a canyon, because a valley was pictured as the land's gullet.
Word origin
From Old French 'gorge', meaning 'throat', from Late Latin 'gurges', a whirlpool or gullet - the landform sense came from imagining a narrow valley as the earth's throat.
Remember it
GORGE is the throat of the earth - you can gorge food down a throat, and a river gorges its way through rock.
A little poem
The water spent ten thousand years
to swallow stone and leave this gorge-
patience, ground into sheer cliffs.
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Wordplay
- I gorged myself at the canyon picnic - turns out a gorge is a hard place to stop eating.
What it teaches
The deepest cuts in the world are made not by force but by something soft that never stops.
Quick facts
What does GORGE mean?
A narrow, steep-sided valley, usually with a river running through it.
Is GORGE a valid word?
Yes — GORGE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GORGE?
GORGE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does GORGE come from?
From Old French 'gorge', meaning 'throat', from Late Latin 'gurges', a whirlpool or gullet - the landform sense came from imagining a narrow valley as the earth's throat.
What can GORGE teach us?
The deepest cuts in the world are made not by force but by something soft that never stops.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.