Gowan Definition

gouən
noun
Any yellow or white field flower; esp., the English daisy.
Webster's New World

(mineralogy) Decomposed granite.

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Other Word Forms of Gowan

Noun

Singular:
gowan
Plural:
gowans

Origin of Gowan

  • Probably alteration of Middle English gollan a plant with yellow flowers Old Norse gullinn golden from gull gold ghel-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Scots, from Gaelic.

    From Wiktionary

Gowan Sentence Examples

  • Below it is Gowan Hill, and beyond this the Mote or Heading Hill, on which Murdoch Stuart, 2nd duke of Albany, his two sons, and his fatherin-law the earl of Lennox, were beheaded in 1425.

  • Grand finale the prize in world clonie gowan chris in the us.

  • Moreover, 73 several other respondents stressed that Gowan was a highly gifted scientist, scrupulous in his attention to detail and immensely industrious.

  • In 1750 Dr Gowan Knight found that the needles of merchant-ships were made of two pieces of steel bent in the middle and united in the shape of a rhombus, and proposed to substitute straight steel bars of small breadth, suspended edgewise and hardened throughout.

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