Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gangland

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.56 in modern English

Syllables: gang-land
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The underworld of organized crime.

Example Sentences

"Australia's reputation as the happy-go-lucky country was turned on its head in the late 1990s as the usually safe streets of the Victorian capital were transformed into a gangland war zone."
"The Irish gangland figure Gerry “the monk” Hutch has failed in his bid for a parliamentary seat in a Dublin byelection."

Etymology

Etymology tree English gang Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English gangland From gang + land.

Inflected Forms

ganglands (plural)

Derived Forms

ganglander

Synonyms

netherworld organized crime gangdom

Questions

What does gangland mean?: The underworld of organized crime.
Where does gangland come from?: Etymology tree English gang Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English gangland From gang + land.

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