gordon

name

1. A Scottish habitational surname from the Celtic languages for someone from Gordon, Berwickshire.
2. An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman for someone from Gourdon, France.
3. A habitational surname from Irish, an anglicization of de Górdún (“of Gordon (Berwickshire)”).
4. A surname from Irish [in turn originating as a patronymic], an adopted anglicization of Mag Mhuirneacháin (“son of Muirneachán”) (traditionally Magournahan).
5. A Jewish habitational surname probably for someone from Grodno, Belarus.

   “Mount, vassals, couch your lances, and cry, "Gordon! Gordon for Scotland and Elizabeth!"”

6. 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.”

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noun

1. A Gordon setter.