goa

plural goas

1. A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.

1. A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.

1. uncountableentertainmentA form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.

   Synonyms: Goa trance

1. The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.

   The month of Thorri was followed by Góa, when the farmer often left to go fishing and his wife had to see to managing the household.

   1998, Terry G. Lacy, Ring of Seasons, University of Michigan Press, published 2000, page 59

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   In the last week of Goa, in mid-March, there occurred an example of God's great providence: a large schooner from Dunkirk in France ran aground on one of the Hálsasker skerries off the coast of the eastern part of Suðursveit.

   2012, Julian Meldon D'Arcy, translating Þórbergur Þórðarson, The Stones Speak, in Of Icelandic Nobles and Idiot Savants, Brú 2014, p. 147

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1. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of gone on arrival (“where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived”).