goa

name

1. A state in western India. Capital: Panaji.
2. The fifth winter month of the traditional Icelandic calendar, running from mid-February to mid-March.

   “The month of Thorri was followed by Góa, when the farmer often left to go fishing and his wife had to see to managing the household.”

   “In the last week of Goa, in mid-March, there occurred an example of God's great providence: a large schooner from Dunkirk in France ran aground on one of the Hálsasker skerries off the coast of the eastern part of Suðursveit.”

noun

1. (uncountable)A form of trance music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India, typically with droning basslines and progressive beat changes.
2. A Tibetan gazelle of species Procapra picticaudata, an antelope that inhabits the Tibetan Plateau.

phrase

1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of gone on arrival (“where the intended target was not present at the location that was sought when an agent arrived”).