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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

G, the seventh letter and the fifth articulation of the English Alphabet, is derived to us, through the Latin and Greek, from the Assyrian languages; it being found in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan, Phenician, Ethiopic and Arabic. In the latter language, it is called giim or jim; ;but in the others, gimel, gomal or gamal, that is camel, from its shape. which resembles the neck of that animal, at least in the Chaldee and Hebrew. It is the third letter in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan and Greek; the fifth in the Arabic, and the twentieth in the Ethiopic. The early Latins used C for the Greek gamma, and hence C came to hold the third place in the order of the Alphabet; the place which gimel holds in the oriental languages. The two letters are primarily palatals, and so nearly allied in sound that they are easily convertible; and they have been reciprocally used the one for the other. But in the Assyrian languages; gimel had two sounds; one hard or close, as we pronounce the letter in gave, good; the other soft, or rather compound, as the English j or as ch in chase. In the Arabic, this letter has the sound of the English j or dzh, and this sound it has in many English words, as in genius, gem, ginger. It retains its hard sound in all cases, before a, o and u; but before e, i and y, its sound is hard or soft, as custom has dictated,and its different sounds are not reducible to rules. It is silent in some words before n, as in benign, condign, malign, campaign; but it resumes its sound inbenignityand malignity. G is mute before n in gnash; it is silent also in many words when united with h, as in bright, might,night, nigh,high. The Saxon g has in many words been softened or liquefied into y or ow; as Sax. daeg, gear, Eng. day, year; Sax. bugan, Eng. to Bow.
The Celtic nations had a peculiar manner of beginning the sound of u or w with the articulation g, or rather prefixing this articulation to that vowel. Thus guard for ward,gwain for wain, guerre for war, gwell for well. Whether this g has been added by the Celtic races, or whether the Teutonic nations have lost it, is a question I have not examined with particular attention. As a numeral G was anciently used to denote 400, and with a dash over it G, 40,000. As an abbreviation, it stands for Gaius, Geelius, etc. In music, it is the mark of the treble cliff, and from its being placed at the head or marking the first sound in Guido's scale, the whole scale took the name, Gammut, from the Greek name of the letter.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]
2: a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine [syn: guanine, G]
3: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxyguanosine monophosphate, G]
4: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]
5: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force]
6: a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes [syn: gigabyte, G, GB]
7: a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes [syn: gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiB]
8: (physics) the universal constant relating force to mass and distance in Newton's law of gravitation [syn: gravitational constant, universal gravitational constant, constant of gravitation, G]
9: the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: G, g]

Merriam Webster's

I. abbreviation 1. German 2. giga- 3. guanine 4. Gulf II. certification mark — used to certify that a motion picture is of such a nature that persons of all ages may be allowed admission; compare NC-17, pg, PG-13, r

Merriam Webster's

I. noun (plural g's or gs) Usage: often capitalized, often attributive Date: before 12th century 1. a. the 7th letter of the English alphabet b. a graphic representation of this letter c. a speech counterpart of orthographic g 2. the fifth tone of a C-major scale 3. a graphic device for reproducing the letter g 4. one designated g especially as the seventh in order or class 5. [gravity] acceleration of gravity; also a unit of force that is equal to the force exerted by gravity on a body at rest and is used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when undergoing acceleration 6. [grand] slang a sum of $1000 7. something shaped like the letter G II. abbreviation 1. acceleration of gravity; gravity 2. game 3. gauge 4. gelding 5. gender 6. good 7. gram

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. (also g) (pl. Gs or G's) 1 the seventh letter of the alphabet. 2 Mus. the fifth note in the diatonic scale of C major. 2. abbr. (also G.) 1 gauss. 2 giga-. 3 gravitational constant. 4 US sl. = GRAND n. 2.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

abbr. (also g.) 1 gelding. 2 gram(s). 3 a gravity. b acceleration due to gravity.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

G G (j[=e]) 1. G is the seventh letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It has two sounds; one simple, as in gave, go, gull; the other compound (like that of j), as in gem, gin, dingy. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 231-6, 155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246. Note: The form of G is from the Latin, in the alphabet which it first appeared as a modified form of C. The name is also from the Latin, and probably comes to us through the French. Etymologically it is most closely related to a c hard, k y, and w; as in corn, grain, kernel; kin L. genus, Gr. ?; E. garden, yard; drag, draw; also to ch and h; as in get, prehensile; guest, host (an army); gall, choler; gust, choose. See C. 2. (Mus.) G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G[sharp] (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.

Moby Thesaurus

C, C-note, G suit, G-note, M, apogeotropism, buck, cartwheel, cent, century, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, copper, dime, dollar, dollar bill, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, four bits, frogskin, geotropism, grand, gravitation, graviton, gravity, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, lakh, mass, mill, millennium, millepede, milligram, milliliter, myriad, nickel, one hundred thousand, penny, quarter, red cent, sawbuck, silver dollar, skin, smacker, specific gravity, ten cents, ten thousand, ten-spot, tenner, thou, thousand, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, yard