Definition of "Gordon"

Gordon

/ˈɡɔrdn̩/

proper noun
1. A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6443).
2. A Scottish habitational surname from the Celtic languages for someone from Gordon, Berwickshire.
3. An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman for someone from Gourdon, France.
4. A habitational surname from Irish, an anglicization of de Górdún (“of Gordon (Berwickshire)”).
5. A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Mag Mhuirneacháin (“son of Muirneachán”) (traditionally Magournahan).
6. A Jewish habitational surname probably for someone from Grodno, Belarus.
  Quotations
  Mount, vassals, couch your lances, and cry, "Gordon! / Gordon for Scotland and Elizabeth!"
  1822 Walter Scott, Poetical Works: Halidon Hill (Baudry's European Library, 1838), page 420
7. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  Quotations
  Often he wrote good ones on casual slips and fancied them his; names like Trevellyan or Montressor or Delancey, with musical prefixes; or a good, short, beautiful, but dignified name like "Gordon Dane". He liked that one. It suggested something.
  1913, Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2008, page 13
8. A locale in Australia.
  1. A suburb of Canberra; named for poet Adam Lindsay Gordon.
  2. A suburb of Sydney; probably named for British Army officer James Willoughby Gordon.
  3. A town in Victoria; named for early settler George Gordon.
9. A locale in the United States.
  1. A city in Georgia; named for railroad official William Washington Gordon.
  2. A city in Nebraska; named for early settler John Gordon.
  3. A city in Texas.
  4. A town in Alabama.
  5. A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin; named for fur trader Antoine Guerdon.
  6. A town in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
  7. A borough of Pennsylvania; named for judge David F. Gordon.
  8. A village in Ohio; named for an early settler.
  9. An unincorporated community in California.
  10. An unincorporated community in Illinois.
  11. An unincorporated community in Kansas.
  12. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
10. A river in Tasmania, Australia.
11. A river in Western Australia, Australia; named for British statesman George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.
noun
plural Gordons
1. A Gordon setter.