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Gordon
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A Scottish habitational surname from the Celtic languages for someone from Gordon, Berwickshire.
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An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman for someone from Gourdon, France.
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A habitational surname from Irish, an anglicization of de Górdún (“of Gordon (Berwickshire)”).
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A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Mag Mhuirneacháin (“son of Muirneachán”) (traditionally Magournahan).
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A Jewish habitational surname probably for someone from Grodno, Belarus.
"Mount, vassals, couch your lances, and cry, "Gordon! Gordon for Scotland and Elizabeth!""
— (1822)
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
"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."
— Harry Leon Wilson (1913)
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A place name: A village in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT6443).
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A place name: A locale in Australia. A suburb of Canberra; named for poet Adam Lindsay Gordon.
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A place name: A locale in Australia. A suburb of Sydney in Ku-ring-gai council area, New South Wales.
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A place name: A locale in Australia. A locality in Huon Valley council area and the Kingborough council area, southern Tasmania, Australia.
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A place name: A locale in Australia. A river in Tasmania, Australia.
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A place name: A locale in Australia. A town in Victoria; named for early settler George Gordon.
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A place name: A locale in Australia. A river in Western Australia, Australia; named for British statesman George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A town in Houston County, Alabama.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A city in Wilkinson County, Georgia; named for railroad official William Washington Gordon.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Illinois.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kansas.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: An unincorporated community in Letcher County, Kentucky.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A township in Todd County, Minnesota.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A city in Sheridan County, Nebraska; named for early settler John Gordon.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A village in Darke County, Ohio; named for an early settler.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A borough in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; named for judge David F. Gordon.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A minor city in Palo Pinto County, Texas.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A town in Ashland County, Wisconsin; named for fur trader Antoine Guerdon.
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A place name: A locale in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Douglas County, Wisconsin.
noun
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A Gordon setter.
Word Forms
Gordons plural
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Etymology
The main etymology, associated with Celtic names, is from the Scots surname Gordon, from a place name, but the origin is debated: * If the English or Scots name is from a Brythonic language (such as Old Welsh or Old Breton), then possibly from a Proto-Brythonic compound such as *gor (“spacious”) + *din (“fort”); * If the Scots name is itself from English, then possibly from French Gourdon, derived from Gallo-Roman Latin Gordus, from Gaulish *Gordos; * Otherwise, possibly ultimately from Old English *gor-dūn (“mud hill”) whence a habitational name.