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gång

Pronunciation: /ɡɔŋ/

“gång” is a Swedish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. walking
  2. manner of walk, gait
  3. a path, a walkway (in a park or garden)
  4. an aisle (corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale)
  5. a passage, a corridor (tunnel-like passage or narrow corridor)
  6. race walking
  7. the continuous running of something, such as a machinery or time
  8. a time (occasion of a particular thing happening or being the case)

Etymology

From Old Swedish ganger, from Old Norse gangr, from Proto-Germanic *gangaz.

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