giles

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of giles in Turkish Turkish dictionary

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GÎLE

(Osmanlı Dönemi) Şikâyet

GÎLE

(Osmanlı Dönemi) Üzüm tanesi

GÎLE

(Osmanlı Dönemi) f. İki dağ arasındaki yol, vadi

English - English

Definition of giles in English English dictionary

A male given name

A patronymic surname

given name, male

cripples

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Giles Lytton Strachey

born March 1, 1880, London, Eng. died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire English biographer and critic. After studying at Cambridge, he became a leader in the Bloomsbury group. Though a self-identified homosexual, he was engaged very briefly to Virginia Woolf. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past, he opened a new era of biographical writing with his Eminent Victorians (1918), consisting of four sketches of Victorian idols whom he portrayed as multifaceted, flawed human beings. Fascinated by personality and motive, he treated his subjects idiosyncratically and somewhat cynically. He also published Queen Victoria (1921), Elizabeth and Essex (1928), Portraits in Miniature (1931), and critical writings, especially on French literature

St Giles' Greek

A secret language, as spoken by beggars and thieves

Wade-Giles

A certain system, once extremely popular, for transcribing the Beijing form of Mandarin Chinese into the Latin alphabet

gile

Guile

Turkish pronunciation

caylz

Pronunciation

/ˈʤīlz/ /ˈʤaɪlz/

Etymology

() Medieval English form of Old French saints' name Gide, an altered form of Latin Aegidius, from Ancient Greek Aigidios, derivative of aigidion "kid, young goat".