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gay nineties
plural-nounLow frequency (mainly historical/cultural reference)
/ˌɡeɪ ˈnaɪn.tiz/A term referring to the decade of the 1890s in the United States, particularly its atmosphere of prosperity and lightheartedness.
gay power
nounC1
/ˌɡeɪ ˈpaʊə(r)/A political and social slogan advocating for the rights, visibility, and empowerment of gay people.
gay-feather
nounRare
/ˌɡeɪ ˈfeðə/A common name for a genus of North American perennial plants (Liatris) with tall spikes of purple, pink, or white flowers.
gay-lussac
nounVery Low / Scientific
/ˌɡeɪ ləˈsæk/An eponymous term referring to the French chemist and physicist Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac, used primarily to name scientific laws, apparatus, or measurements.
gay-lussac's law
nounVery Low Frequency
/ˌɡeɪ lʊˈsæks ˌlɔː/A fundamental gas law stating that the pressure of a given mass of gas is directly proportional to its absolute temperature when its volume is held constant.
gaya
nounVery Low
/ˈɡɑː.jə/(Often capitalized: Gaya) An ancient kingdom or confederacy on the Korean Peninsula during the Three Kingdoms period, 1st–6th centuries CE.
gaya maretan
nounUnknown / Non-existent
This appears to be an erroneous or non-standard lexical item. It may be a mishearing or corruption of an existing phrase, potentially from a specific regional or cultural context.
gayal
nounC2
/ɡeɪˈɑːl/A domesticated bovine mammal (Bos frontalis), also known as the mithun, native to northeastern India, Bangladesh, northern Myanmar, and China.
gayatri
nounLow
/ɡəˈjɑːtri/A sacred Vedic meter of twenty-four syllables; a specific Hindu prayer (the Gayatri Mantra) recited in that meter.
gaydar
nounC1
/ˈɡeɪ.dɑː/An intuitive ability to detect if someone is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer, based on subtle cues, behaviours, or characteristics.
gaye
nounVery Low (archaic/obsolete in its adjectival sense)
/ɡeɪ/An archaic, poetic, or Middle English spelling of the adjective 'gay', primarily meaning light-hearted, carefree, or brightly coloured and showy.
gayety
nounLow
/ˈɡeɪ.ə.ti/The state of being light-hearted, cheerful, and merry.
gayle
nounRare
/ɡeɪl/A given name, typically female, of English origin.
gaylord
nounC2 (Very Low Frequency)
/ˈɡeɪlɔːd/An English surname of Old French origin, literally meaning 'gay lord' or 'joyful nobleman'; also a type of large shipping container or box.
gaylussite
nounUltra Rare
/ˈɡeɪlʊsaɪt/A mineral, hydrated sodium calcium carbonate, typically found as transparent, colourless crystals.
gayness
nounLow
/ˈɡeɪnəs/The state or quality of being homosexual.
gayomart
nounVery Low
/ˌɡaɪəʊˈmɑːt/In Zoroastrian cosmology, the primordial, archetypal man, the first mortal being created by Ahura Mazda.
gaywings
nounVery Rare
/ˈɡeɪwɪŋz/A North American woodland herb (Polygala paucifolia) with showy, purplish-pink flowers.
gaza
nounMedium-High (Frequency is highly context-dependent on global news cycles; appears extensively in international news, political, and historical contexts.)
/ˈɡɑːzə/A strip of land on the Mediterranean coast, historically a region and city, now commonly referring to the Gaza Strip in the Middle East.
gaza strip
nounC1+
/ˈɡɑːzə strɪp/A small, densely populated coastal territory on the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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