Ga
noun
a Kwa language of Ghana, spoken in Accra and vicinity.
Ga
1 American
[gah]
/ gɑ /
noun
Ga
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
GA
3
American
Ga.
4
American
abbreviation
G.A.
5
American
abbreviation
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General Agent.
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General Assembly.
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Insurance. Also g.a., G/A general average.
GA
1
British
abbreviation
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General Assembly (of the United Nations)
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general average
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Georgia
Ga
2
British
/ ɡɑː /
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in S Ghana
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the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family
Ga
3
British
symbol
Ga.
4
British
abbreviation
ga
5
British
abbreviation
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He was an inmate himself, locked up two hours away at Washington State Prison in Davisboro, Ga.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
King Tackie Teiko Tsuru II, the Ga Mantse, leader of Ghana's Ga people, recently took the step of publicly apologising for his ancestors' involvement in the slave trade.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
“Indexed Universal Life policies are often sold as a ‘have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too’ solution: stock-market upside with downside protection and tax-free income,” said Mark Stancato, a certified financial planner with VIP Wealth Advisors in Decatur, Ga.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
It comes from “The Underdog,” off the band’s 2007 album, “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”: You got no fear of the underdog — that’s why you will not survive.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025
Amari surmised that women from many different tribes and countries were imprisoned here—Ibo, Ga, and Mandinka.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
“In Western cultures and especially in the U.S., men are just socialized this way,” says Dr. Drew Adelman, a clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
You can get a GA combo pass that includes shuttle transportation starting at $699.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
He said the player everybody called GA, didn’t have to be managed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2026
Prior to that, she reported on Hyundai’s first U.S. electric vehicle plant for the Current GA through the Dow Jones News Fund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
In this figure I have first drawn the pavement by means of the diagonals GA, Go, Go, &c., and the vanishing point V, the square at A being given.
From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey
Over four generations, the Howards built a permanent mill in Statesboro, Ga., and added timberland to feed it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The Blackshear, Ga., logging firm buys standing timber from landowners, deploys logging crews and hauls the wood to mills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
After hitting the stage to perform in Sugar Hill, Ga., on Friday, the Poison lead singer was advised he needed more time to recuperate from recent surgeries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
“A statistic like that is genuinely concerning,” Mark Stancato, a financial adviser based in Decatur, Ga., told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
I carried the letter to General Leggett, who placed on it the following indorsement: "Head-quarters 3d Division, 17th Army Corps, "Before Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 15, 1864.
From Four Years A Scout and Spy by E. C. Downs
The plan will save the cost of gas needed to fire up the ovens every morning, Roeders calculates, even if it means paying staff at family-owned G.A.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
Presidents, premiers, monarchs and other dignitaries won’t have to show vaccination cards or other proof of inoculation — they’ll simply attest to it by swiping their ID badges at the assembly hall, G.A.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
Salvatore Martirano's "L's G.A. for Gas-Masked Politico, Helium Bomb, and Two-Channel Tape," to give the full title of the piece that ended the program, is a blast from the 1968 past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
Then he searched for just the right job, which turned out to be G.A.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
An EastKarhidish story, as told in Gorinhering Hearth by Tobord Chorhawa, and recorded by G.A.,
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
The baby, thought to be female, has been named Nun cho ga, meaning "big baby animal" in the Han language spoken by Native Americans in the area.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
My apartment is at the edge of Chicago's Little Vietnam stretch and pho ga from Nhà Hàng Vietnam Restaurant has quickly become my go-to post-work comfort food.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2022
Like the chicken in the pad ga prao, Martinet and Devaul make the sausages in house by grinding their own pork.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
His mother’s ga quay, or roast chicken, wasn’t roasted at all, as most home cooks then didn’t have ovens.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
It is really a poem, whose words go back to the ninth century: Kimi ga yo wa chiyoni yachiyoni sa-za-re i-shi no i-wa-o to na-ri-te ko-ke no musu made.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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