Danish–English dictionary

galeon

A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

galge

A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]

Galicien

A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.

Galilæa

A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.

galionsfigur

(nautical) A carved figure on the prow of a sailing ship.

Galizien

former kingdom and geographical area in Central Europe, now divided between Poland and Ukraine.

galler

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.

galleri

An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.

Gallien

(chiefly, historic) A historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.

galning

(informal, offensive, derogatory) An insane or very foolish person.

galoche

(British) A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow.

galop

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

galopere

(intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.

galskab

The state of being insane; madness.

galt

(obsolete, _, except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.

galvanisere

(usually) To coat with a layer of zinc (for rust resistance) by electrochemical means.

galvaniseret

(British spelling) Of metal, coated with zinc as a form of protection against rust.

gamache

A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

gambit

(chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.

gammel

Former, previous.

gammel mand

(colloquial) An old person, usually a man.

gammeldags

Of or characterized by antiquity; old-fashioned, quaint, antiquated.

gammen

(uncountable) The emotion of being happy; joy; elation.

Gandja

A city in Azerbaijan.

Ganesha

(Hinduism) A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates, and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.

gang

A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.

gangart

Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

gange

(mathematics) Multiplied by (see also 'ratio of comparison' sense at 'time).

Ganges

A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.

gangræn

The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

gangster

A member of a criminal or street gang.

gangsti

Any set path or trail to be used by people walking.

ganja

(especially, India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.

ganske

To the full or entire extent.

ganske særlig

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.

Ganymedes

(Greek god) A Trojan boy who was abducted (either by Zeus or Eos), and ultimately became immortal in order to be Zeus' cupbearer.

garage

A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

garant

(colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.

garantere

To give an assurance that something will be done right.

garanti

Security; guaranty; bail.

gård

(countable) A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.

garderobe

(British, Irish, India) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.

garderobeskab

A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.

gårdhave

(architecture) A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

gardin

A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

gårdmand

A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.

gårdsplads

An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

gargoil

A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.

garn

A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.

garnison

A permanent military post.

gartner

One who gardens; one who grows plants or cultivates a garden.

garve

(transitive, stative) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.

garver

A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

gase

A male goose.

gasformig

Relating to, or existing as gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma).

gasholdig

Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy.

gasse op

(ergative) To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.

gastrisk

Of or relating to the stomach.

gaussisk

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to Carl Friedrich Gauss.

gave

A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.

gavl

(architectural element) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

gavmild

Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. [from 17th c.]

gavnlig

Helpful or good to something or someone.

gavtyv

An overly playful person; a trifler.

gaydar

(LGBTQ slang) The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person's appearance, mannerisms, etc. [from early 1980s]

Gaza

A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant; in full, Gaza City.

gaze

A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.

gazebind

(medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.

gazelle

An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.

gæld

Unpaid debt.

gælde

(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

gælisk

Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland and Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.

gælle

(transitive) To eviscerate.

gærdesmutte

Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).

gære

To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew.

gæret

Of food or drink, turned sour due to unwanted fermentation.

gæring

(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide

gæsling

(botany) A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.

gæst

Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

gæstfri

cordial and generous towards guests

gæstfrihed

The quality of being hospitable.

gæstmild

cordial and generous towards guests

gætte

To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.

gearkasse

That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.

gearstang

A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.

gebærde

(obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

gebyr

An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.

ged

(uncountable) The meat of the aforementioned animal.

gedde

Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

gedeblad

Any of several species of superficially similar plants from Australia

gedehams

A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.

geisha

A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

gejser

(planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.

gejst

Life, energy, vigor.

gejstlig

A member of a clergy.

gekko

Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae of small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.

gel

A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal.

gelejde

(intransitive, obsolete) To associate in a company; to keep company.

gemen

(historical, or, derogatory) Having to do with ordinary, common people.

gemme

(transitive) To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.

gemmested

A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.

gemse

A short-horned goat antelope native to mountainous terrain in southern Europe; Rupicapra rupicapra.

gemyt

Temperament, temperamental makeup or habitual mood.

gen

(genetics) A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms which may take several values and (in principle) predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.

gen-

again, anew

genanvende

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

genanvendelse

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

genbrug

The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.

genbruge

(transitive) To break down and reuse component materials.

genbrugelig

Able to be recycled.

gendanne

(transitive) To give or bring back (that which has been lost or taken); to bring back to the owner; to replace.

gendarmeri

A military body charged with police duties among the civilian population.

gendrivelse

An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.

gene

Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.

genealogi

(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.

genealogisk

Of or relating to genealogy.

general

(military ranks) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. [from 16th c.]

generalisere

To infer or induce from specific cases to more general cases or principles.

generation

(countable, uncommon, possibly, dated) A generation.

generator

Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

genere

(transitive) To trouble, to bother, to annoy.

generel

Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal. [from 13th c.]

generelt

In the general case; without further assumption; without qualification; in all respects.

generelt set

In the general case; without further assumption; without qualification; in all respects.

generende

Causing trouble or anxiety.

generøs

Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. [from 17th c.]

generøsitet

(uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time.

genert

Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.

genese

The origin, start, or point at which something comes into being.

genetik

(biology) The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.

genetisk

(genetics) Relating to genetics or genes. [from 1908]

Genève

A canton of Switzerland.

genfærd

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

genforene

(ambitransitive, reciprocal) To unite again.

genforenes

(ambitransitive, reciprocal) To unite again.

genforening

The unification of something that was previously divided; used especially of a country.

genfødsel

Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.

genganger

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.

gengælde

(transitive, dated) To retort; to throw back.

gengældelse

Violent or otherwise punitive response to an act of harm or perceived injustice; a hitting back; revenge.

gengivelse

Clarity, especially of musical sound in reproduction.

genial

Marked by genius.

genindlæse

(computing) To refresh a copy of a program etc. in memory or of a web page etc. on screen

genitiv

Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

genitivisk

Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

genkende

(transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.

genkendelse

The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

genlæse

To read again.

genmæle

(transitive, intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

gennem

From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).