gang – English noun declension

English noun forms of gang

Noun: gang
Singulargang
Pluralgangs

Sample Sentences

  • the Gashouse Gang
  • The gang from our office is going out for drinks Friday night.
  • a gang of sailors; a railroad gang; a labor gang or pool.
  • a youth gang; a neighborhood gang; motorcycle gang.
  • The Winter Hill Gang was quite proficient at murdering rival mobsters in order to take over their rackets.
  • The Gang of Four was led by Jiang Qing, the fourth wife of Mao Zedong.
  • Not all members of the Gang of Six are consistent in their opposition to filibuster.
  • The sun isn't real? What are you even talking about, gang?
  • One day they followed a gang of deer that ran in toward the settlements. [1915, Noah J. Major, The Pioneers of Morgan County: Memoirs of Noah J. Major, E. J. Hecker, page 331:]
  • saw Several gangs of Elk on each Side of the river. late in the afternoon we Saw a gang of Buffaloe [1805, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: The journals of John Ordway, May 14, 1804-September 23, 1806, and Charles Floyd, May 14-August 18, 1804:]
  • there sat the gang of toms who owned the neighbor's patio under feline law. [2016, Stone Riley, Tales Of Men And Women, page 219:]
  • He was not long in discovering a fine gang of turkeys, and after assuring himself that many of them had taken the direction he desired, undertook to regain the covert by another route. [1883, Mary Virginia Terhune, Her wedding day, page 9:]
  • Nearly every farmer has a "gang" of turkeys. [1913 November 6, National Stockman and Farmer, volume 37:]
  • On our way back to the camp the dogs run into a gang of turkeys. [1928, William G. Lewis, Lewis Family, page 30:]
  • "Come on, boss; I b'leeve I know whar dey is. "Tis three gangs done got to-gether, en dey ain' been hunted at all. Ei we git in dat gang we gits turkeys en dat's jes' what's gwinter happen!" [1905 December, Plummer F. Jones, “Turkey-Hunting in the Old Dominion”, in Field and Stream, volumes 9-10, number 8, CBS Publications, page 751:]
  • a gang of saws; a gang of plows; a gang drill; gang milling.
  • a new gang of stays.
  • an outlet gang box; a double gang switch.
  • a gang of wires
  • Do a drop for the telephone gang, then another drop for the Internet gang, both through the ceiling of the wiring closet.
  • In unploughed Maine he sought the lumberers’ gang / Where from a hundred lakes young rivers sprang [1840, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes I.3:]
  • That week was also called the Gang Week, from the Saxon ganger, to go; and the Rogation days were termed the Gang Days. [1869, “Papa André”, in Once a Week, page 418/1:]
  • Neither Marshall nor Bouterwek makes clear the connection existing between the Gang-days and the Major and Minor Litanies. [1895, Frederick Tupper Jr., Anglo-Saxon Dæg-Mæl, Modern Language Association of America, page 229:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóngʰos
5. Proto-Germanic *gangaz
6. Proto-West Germanic *gang
7. Old English gang
8. Middle English gang
9. English gang
10. From Middle English gang, from Old English gang (“a journey; way; passage”), from Proto-West Germanic *gang, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰongʰ-o-s, from *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step; stride”).
11. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gong, Dutch gang, German Gang, Norwegian gang, Swedish gång, Icelandic gangur, Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). See: Old English Nouns 'gang', Dutch Nouns 'gang', German Nouns 'Gang', Swedish Nouns 'gång', Icelandic Nouns 'gangur'.

Verbs referencing "gang"

French Nouns gang, Polish Nouns gang, German Nouns Gang, Italian Nouns ghenga, Finnish Nouns gängi, Swedish Nouns gäng, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns gjeng, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gjeng, Italian Nouns ghega, Danish Nouns gæng.