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# gosling

noun (a gosling, goslings)

«gosling» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A baby goose. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#m1)
2. (rare) A young, silly or inexperienced person. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#m2)

### In the lessons

In nature and farm stories and lessons on animal babies (duckling, cygnet, gosling). Phrases: fluffy goslings, a goose and her goslings.

### Examples

- The goose led her goslings down to the pond. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x1)
- Goslings are covered in soft yellow fluff. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x2)
- We saw six goslings at the park in spring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x3)
- A baby duck is a duckling and a baby goose is a gosling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x4)
- The goslings followed the farmer as if he were their mother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x5)
- The gosling hid under its mother's wing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x6)
- There is another version in which the impertinent gosling goes to tell the fox something her mother has said, and is caught; and there may be other versions. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/#x7)

### Note

Plural goslings. Baby birds: duck - duckling, goose - gosling, swan - cygnet, owl - owlet. Goslings imprint: they follow the first moving thing they see.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gosling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gosling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gosling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gosling.html) on Mova free.