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BNC: 37128 COCA: 26778

gander

1 gander /ˈgændɚ/ noun
plural ganders
1 gander
/ˈgændɚ/
noun
plural ganders
Learner's definition of GANDER
[count]
: a male goose公鹅

what's good for the goose is good for the gander

see 1goose
compare 2gander
2 gander /ˈgændɚ/ noun
2 gander
/ˈgændɚ/
noun
Learner's definition of GANDER
[singular] informal
: a look at something一看;一眼
compare 1gander
BNC: 37128 COCA: 26778

gander

1 of 2

noun (1)

gan·​der ˈgan-dər How to pronounce gander (audio)
1
: an adult male goose
2

gander

2 of 2

noun (2)

plural ganders
informal
: look, glance
take a gander
Those intrigued by such oddities … will surely find Stuart Kelly's "Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read" worth a gander. Joe Queenan
… trying to step back for a good gander at the art in the Guggenheim. Charles Taylor
… had no choice but to push to the front of the horde and through some glass doors to get a gander at what was going on. Rick Barrs

Word History

Etymology

Noun (1)

Middle English gandre, gander, going back to Old English gandra, ganra, going back to Germanic *gan-ra- (whence Middle Low German ganre "male goose," Upper German dialect Gander, Ganter), derivative from the base of Germanic *gan-s- "goose" — more at goose entry 1

Noun (2)

probably derivative of gander entry 1, from the goose-like appearance of a person stretching to look at something

First Known Use

Noun (1)

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun (2)

circa 1914, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gander was before the 12th century
BNC: 37128 COCA: 26778

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