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Webster 1913 Edition


Gowan

Gow′an

,
Noun.
[Scot., fr. Gael.
gugan
bud, flower, daisy.]
1.
The daisy, or mountain daisy.
[Scot.]
And pu’d the
gowans
fine.
Burns.
2.
(Min.)
Decomposed granite.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gowan

GOW'AN

,
Noun.
A plant, a species of Bellis or daisy.

Definition 2024


Gowan

Gowan

See also: gowan

English

Proper noun

Gowan

  1. A surname.

gowan

gowan

See also: Gowan

English

Noun

gowan (plural gowans)

  1. (Northumbria) The common daisy.
    • 1788, Robert Burns, 'Auld Lang Syne'
      We twa hae run about the braes,
      and pou’d the gowans fine;
      But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,
      sin' auld lang syne.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XIII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      Upjohn wrote this slim volume, which, if you recall, was about preparatory schools, and in it, so Kipper tells me, said that the time spent in these establishments was the happiest of our lives. Ye Ed passed it on to Kipper for comment, and he, remembering the dark days at Malvern House, Bramley-on-Sea, when he and I were plucking the gowans fine there, slated it with no uncertain hand.
  2. (mineralogy) Decomposed granite.

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Scots

Etymology

From the original form gollan the marsh marigold.

Noun

gowan (plural gowans)

  1. The common daisy.
    • 1788, Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne:
      We twa hae run about the braes, / and pu’d the gowans fine ; / But we’ve wander’d mony a weary foot, / sin auld lang syne.