English Explanatory Dictionary

Gath

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
name
  1. A city in ancient Philistia, home of Goliath, located in the foothills of the Judean Mountains in what is most likely modern-day Israel.

Word forms

Gath Gaths

Etymology

Various origins: * A reduced form of McGath, a Scottish surname. * A variant of Garth, an English topographic surname. * Borrowed from North German Gath, a topographic surname from Middle Low German gate (“street, alley”).

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