Gordon

UK: /ˈɡɔːd^ən/ US: (gôr′dn)

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Gor•don  (gôr′dn), n. 

1. Biographical Charles George ("Chinese Gordon'';
   "Gordon Pasha''), 1833–85, British general: administrator in China and Egypt.
2. Biographical Charles William, real name of Ralph Connor.
3. Biographical Lord George, 1751–93, English politician.
4. Biographical George Hamilton, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1784–1860, British statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1852–55.
5. Biographical Mary (Catherine), born 1949, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
6. a male given name: from an Old English word meaning "round hill.''

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Gordon / ˈɡɔːd^ən/ noun

1. Adam Lindsay. 1833–70, Australian poet and horseman, born in the Azores, who developed the bush ballad as a literary form, esp in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870)
2. Charles George, known as Chinese Gordon. 1833–85, British general and administrator. He helped to crush the Taiping rebellion (1863–64), and was governor of Sudan (1877–80), returning in 1884 to aid Egyptian forces against the Mahdi. He was killed in the siege of Khartoum
3. Dexter (Keith). 1923–90, US jazz tenor saxophonist
4. Sir Donald. 1930–2019, South African businessman
5. Lord George. 1751–93, English religious agitator. He led the Protestant opposition to legislation relieving Roman Catholics of certain disabilities, which culminated in the Gordon riots (1780)