Gaul

American  

[gawl] / gɔl /

noun

1. an ancient region in W Europe, including the modern areas of N Italy, France, Belgium, and the S Netherlands: consisted of two main divisions, one part S of the Alps Cisalpine Gaul and another part N of the Alps Transalpine Gaul.

2. Latin Gallia.  a province of the ancient Roman Empire, including the territory corresponding to modern France, Belgium, the S Netherlands, Switzerland, N Italy, and Germany W of the Rhine.

3. an inhabitant of the ancient region of Gaul.

4. a native or inhabitant of France.

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Gaul British  

/ ɡɔːl /

noun

1. Latin name: Gallia.  an ancient region of W Europe corresponding to N Italy, France, Belgium, part of Germany, and the S Netherlands: divided into Cisalpine Gaul, which became a Roman province before 100 _bc , and Transalpine Gaul, which was conquered by Julius Caesar (58–51 _bc )

2. a native of ancient Gaul

3. a Frenchman

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Example Sentences

The layout of the buildings is highly unusual, with no known parallels in the Roman provinces of Germania or Gaul.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

Mr Gaul says that reducing the council's reliance on private special schools, and the "enormous" costs involved, will allow more funding to go into mainstream schools.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

As Ms. Gaul shows through wide-ranging detective work, Egyptian farmers were obliged to rely on artificial fertilizers and year-round irrigation after successive efforts to dam the Nile eventually shut down the river’s age-old fertilization cycle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

More specifically, they’re after a young man named Haskell Gaul, whom Zedlacher claims is a time traveler.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

Octavian would govern the west, including the parts of Gaul that had been under Mark Antony’s control.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby