gertrude

¹

[gur-trood]

noun

1. a slip or underdress for infants.

Gertrude

²

[gur-trood]

noun

1. a female given name: from Germanic words meaning “spear” and “strength.”

Word History and Origins

Origin of gertrude¹

1925–30, special use of Gertrude

Example Sentences

Investors could learn from Gertrude, a lady dedicated to self-preservation, in assessing comments from players in the artificial-intelligence drama.

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I wonder what Marcellus, and Queen Gertrude for that matter, would say about AI?

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Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, wasn’t an easy monarch to convince, even at the theater.

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In June 2014, he married former DPP parliamentarian Gertrude Maseko.

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David Baltimore was born March 7, 1938, in New York City, the son of a garment industry merchant, Richard Baltimore, and Gertrude Lipschitz-Baltimore.

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