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Meaning of gilly | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of gillie (“a guide”).
    alt-of, alternative
  2. The drink torpedo juice.
  3. A diminutive of the female given name Gillian.
  4. A surname from French.
  5. A suburban town in Charleroi municipality, Belgium.
  6. A municipality in Vaud canton, Switzerland.

Equivalents

Français Gilly

Examples

“Before we knew it, we were on a Fokker, twin engine, jet aircraft out of Copenhagen bound for Stavenger, Bergen and Trondheim, Norway, where we rested up for two days before boarding a four passenger float plane in the tiny Village of Hell. The Land Rover manned by our gilly (guide) waited where the A-Elv River joined the sea at the head of the fjord.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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