Gordon
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Etymology
Derived from place names in Scotland, from meaning possibly "great hill" ; also a Norman surname derived from the place name Gourdon in France.
Proper noun
- and clan name.
- 1822 Walter Scott, Poetical Works: Halidon Hill, Baudry's European Library, 1838, page 420
- 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
- Any of several places, outside Scotland named for persons with the surname.
- transferred from the surname. Popular in the UK in the first half of the 20th century.
- 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, page 13
- 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, 2008, ISBN 0554347148, page 13