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# gourd

noun (a gourd, gourds)

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

## Everyday

1. A large fruit with a hard skin, related to pumpkins and melons, often dried and hollowed out. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#m1)
2. A container, bottle or bowl made from a dried gourd, used for water or as a musical rattle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#m2)
3. (US, slang) Out of your gourd means crazy or silly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history and geography lessons gourds are early water bottles and instruments (maracas); at Halloween and harvest festivals, decorative gourds. Phrases: a water gourd, a gourd rattle, out of your gourd.

### Examples

- The traveller drank water from a gourd. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x1)
- We painted gourds for the harvest festival. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x2)
- Maracas were first made from dried gourds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x3)
- Pumpkins, squashes and gourds belong to the same family. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x4)
- In Argentina people drink mate tea from a gourd. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x5)
- Are you out of your gourd? It's snowing and you're in shorts! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x6)
- Here he was seized with dreadful thirst; he took his gourd and raised it to his lips. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gourd/#x7)

### Note

Say GORD or GOORD. Plural gourds. Most decorative gourds are not good to eat. Out of your gourd is informal US slang.

## In Jewish tradition

A plant God made grow over Jonah to shade him, and then sent a worm to kill.

**Interpretation.** Tradition reads the gourd as a lesson: Jonah pitied a plant he never grew, so God asks if He should not pity the great city of Nineveh and its people. The story is read on Yom Kippur afternoon.

### Examples

- So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd. (Prophets JON.4.6, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gourd/#x1)
- But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered. (Prophets JON.4.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gourd/#x2)
- And God said to Jonah: 'Art thou greatly angry for the gourd?' And he said: 'I am greatly angry, even unto death.' (Prophets JON.4.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/gourd/#x3)

### Note

Say GORD or GOORD. Plural gourds. Most decorative gourds are not good to eat. Out of your gourd is informal US slang.

## On Mova

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