Associations to the word «Gaul»

Wiktionary

GAUL, proper noun. A Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium
GAUL, noun. A person from Gaul.

Dictionary definition

GAUL, noun. A person of French descent.
GAUL, noun. A Celt of ancient Gaul.
GAUL, noun. An ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats