gang

Oznaczający (English)

Verb

To go; walk; proceed.

Noun

1. A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
2. A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad or workgang.
3. A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
4. A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
5. A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
6. A chain gang.
7. A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
8. A set; all required for an outfit.
9. A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
10. A group of wires attached as a bundle.
11. A going, journey; a course, path, track.
12. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
13. A term of address for a group, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice.

Noun

Alternative form of gangue

Synonyms

band

group

party

🥳

crew

crowd

company

mob

pack

set

clique

ring

💍

team

bunch

faction

cluster

flock

partisans

followers

friends

squad

troupe

work party

assembly

herd

conspirators

coterie

bevy

body

political party

swarm

gang up

partner

army

gangsters

friend

association

collection

horde

outfit

packaged

pair off

pal

partisan

population

rabble

relatives

riff-raff

sect

side

spiral

system

throng

train

🚋

troops

type

unit

unite

unitized

volute

whorl

complete set

lawless people

recalcitrants

community

organisation

society

banditti

gang of labourers

street gang

Acholi

elique

adherent

adherents

annulus

associate

bandit

band together

bank

🏦

bloc

brigand

buddy

business

cabal

campaign

caravan

circle

⭕

clan

clans

club

coil

companions

covey

division

drive

drove

escort

flow

fraternity

go

kit

knot

🪢

lot

machine

malcontents

movement

multitude

nesting

organization

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

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Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: gangen

Inherited from staroangielski: gangan

Cognate with scots: gang

Cognate with szwedzki: gånga

Cognate with farerski: ganga

Cognate with islandzki: ganga

Inherited from średnioangielski: gang

Inherited from staroangielski: gang

Cognate with fryzyjski saterlandzki: Gong

Cognate with niderlandzki: gang

Cognate with niemiecki: Gang

Cognate with norweski: gang

Cognate with szwedzki: gång

Cognate with islandzki: gangur

In summary

From Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to go, walk, turn out”), from Proto-West Germanic *gangan, from Proto-Germanic *ganganą (“to go, walk”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ- (“to step, walk”).
Cognate with Scots gang (“to go on foot, walk”), Swedish gånga (“to walk, go”), Faroese ganga (“to walk”), Icelandic ganga (“to walk, go”), Vedic Sanskrit जंहस् (jáṃhas). Ultimately: related to etym. 2, see below.