How to Spell gallon

gallon

gallon - noun

  • A unit of liquid capacity equal to 231 cubic inches or four quarts
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API

gallon - thesaurus

Synonyms: baseball caps, berets, billycocks, birettas, boaters, bonnets, bowlers, calottes

Etymology

Middle English galun, galoun, galon, a liquid measure, borrowed from Anglo-French galun, galon, jalon, from Old French jal-, base of jaloie "container for liquids, bucket" (going back to Vulgar Latin *gallēta, of uncertain origin) + -on, diminutive or particularizing suffix, going back to Latin -ō, -ōn-, suffix of persons with a prominent feature

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