1 [U] the bullets that are fired from a gun:
gunshot wounds
2 [C] the firing of a gun; the sound of it being fired:
I heard the sound of gunshots out in the street. * We heard a loud bang; it sounded like a gunshot.
3 [U] the distance that a bullet from a gun can travel:
He was out of / within gunshot.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for gunshot is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is gunshot a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, gunshot is tagged as noun.
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