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say it: GAH-spuhl
gospel is a noun meaning "the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings". It is pronounced /ˈɡɑspəl/ — GAH-spuhl. It carries 5 recorded senses.
folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul)
a cappella singing
the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group
a doctrine that is believed to be of great importance
“Newton's writings were gospel for those who followed”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gospel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.