[ˈɡɒspl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the teaching or revelation of Christ
(e.g: it is the Church's mission to preach the gospel)

- the record of Christ's life and teaching in the first four books of the New Testament

- a fervent style of black American evangelical religious singing, developed from spirituals sung in Southern Baptist and Pentecostal Churches
(e.g: a vocalist who combined gospel with rhythm and blues and soul)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English gōdspel, from gōd ‘good’ + spel ‘news, a story’ (see spell), translating ecclesiastical Latin bona annuntiatio or bonus nuntius, used to gloss ecclesiastical Latin evangelium, from Greek euangelion ‘good news’ (see evangel); after the vowel was shortened in Old English, the first syllable was mistaken for god ‘God’