Usually means: Elegant celebration with festive activities.
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  1. gala: Merriam-Webster
  2. gala: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gala: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gala: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gala: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gala, gala: Wordnik
  7. gala: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gala, gala: Wiktionary
  9. gala: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gala: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gala: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gala, gala: Dictionary.com
  13. gala: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gala: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. GALA, Gala (King of the Massylii), Gala (Numidian king), Gala (album), Gala (apple), Gala (festivity), Gala (king), Gala (magazine), Gala (priests), Gala (singer), Gala (supermarket), Gala: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gala: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gala: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gala: Rhymezone
  19. Gala: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gala: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gala, gala-: MyWord.info
  22. GALA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. gala: FreeDictionary.org
  24. gala: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. gala: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. gala: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gala: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. GALA: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gala: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See galas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Celebratory; festive.
noun:  (uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.
noun:  A competition
noun:  (countable) A showy and festive party.
noun:  A red-skinned variety of eating apple.
noun:  (historical) A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
noun:  (informal) Galashiels, a town in Scotland.
noun:  A type of apple, a cross-pollination between Kidd's Orange Red and Golden Delicious.
noun:  (sports) Galatasaray S.K. (a Turkish sports club best known for its football team)

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