Gao
adj, name, slang
adj, name, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States wordnet
Adjective
- 1 Alternative form of gau. Singapore, alt-of, alternative, colloquial
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Government Accountability Office (or its former name, General Accounting Office). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"The Office of Management and Budget told the GAO it “withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s foreign policy,’” said Thomas Armstrong, the GAO’s general counsel. But the GAO rejected that argument."
- 2 A surname. countable, uncountable
"At least one lineage, the Kaos of Kuan-shan, had charitable land endowed for this purpose by a member in the seventeenth century."
- 3 A city, the capital of the Gao Region, Mali.
Example
More examples"Gao Dao is usually really suave, but he seems completely smitten in front of his girlfriend."
Etymology
From Mandarin 高 (Gāo).
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.