imperial gallon

1. 1.

   a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters

   Synonymsgalloncongius

   BroaderBritish capacity unit

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Questions about imperial gallon

What does imperial gallon mean?

imperial gallon means "a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 quarts or 4.545 liters".

What is another word for imperial gallon?

Close synonyms include gallon, congius. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imperial gallon a common word?

imperial gallon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.