gour
noun
gour is a noun meaning “Dated form of gaur (“Asian wild bovine”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-U-R, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gour is gours.
What does gour mean?
noun
- 1
datedDated form of gaur (“Asian wild bovine”).
- 2
A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.
- 3
IndiaobsoleteThe head man of a village in the Canarese-speaking country.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of gour
- gours plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gour?
Gour appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gour come from?
From French gour (“rock pool”), from Latin gurges. Doublet of gorge and gurges.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).