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Gordon may refer to:

• Gordon (name), for people with the name Gordon

Places

Australia

• Gordon, Australian Capital Territory, suburb of Canberra
• Gordon, New South Wales, suburb of Sydney
• Gordon, Victoria, rural town
• Gordon River, major river of Tasmania

Canada

• Gordon, Ontario, township in Manitoulin District

Scotland

• Gordon (district), area of Aberdeenshire, forming a local government district from 1975 to 1996
• Gordon, Scottish Borders, village in Berwickshire (now the Scottish Borders council area), where the Clan Gordon originated
• Gordon (Scottish Parliament constituency), constituency of the Scottish Parliament
• Gordon (UK Parliament constituency), constituency of the House of Commons
• Gordon, presbytery of the Church of Scotland, see List of Church of Scotland synods and presbyteries
• Gordon Castle, Moray

United States

• Gordon, Alabama
• Gordon, California
• Gordon, Georgia
• Gordon, Nebraska
• Gordon, Ohio
• Gordon, Pennsylvania
• Gordon, Texas
• Gordon, Ashland County, Wisconsin
• Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin
• Gordon County, Georgia
• Gordon Heights, New York
• Gordon Township, Minnesota

Education

• Gordon College (Georgia), a public college in Barnesville, Georgia
• Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts
• Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales

Other uses

• Gordon (album), first album by the Canadian pop band Barenaked Ladies
• Gordon model, stock valuation model by Myron Gordon
• Gordon RFC, Sydney rugby union club
• Gordon the Big Engine, from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends series
• Hurricane Gordon (disambiguation), the name of several Atlantic hurricanes

See also

• Gordon Riots, London, 1780
• Gordon Setter, a breed of dog
• Gordon's Gin
• Klein-Gordon equation, used to describe spinless particles

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English

Etymology

Derived from place names in Scotland, from Scottish Gaelic meaning possibly "great hill" ; also a Norman surname derived from the place name Gourdon in France.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)dən

Proper noun

Gordon

1. A Scottish surname 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!"

2. Any of several places, outside Scotland named for persons with the surname.
3. A male given name 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.

Anagrams

• Anagrams of dgnoor
• drongo
• Grodno

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