Gordon
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Charles George Chinese GordonGordon Pasha, 1833–85, British general: administrator in China and Egypt.
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Charles William, real name of Ralph Connor.
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Lord George, 1751–93, English politician.
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George Hamilton, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, 1784–1860, British statesman, born in Scotland: prime minister 1852–55.
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Mary (Catherine), born 1949, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.
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a male given name: from an Old English word meaning “round hill.”
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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)
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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 the Sudan (1877–80), returning in 1884 to aid Egyptian forces against the Mahdi. He was killed in the siege of Khartoum
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Sir Donald . born 1930; South African businessman
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Dexter ( Keith ). 1923–90, US jazz tenor saxophonist
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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)
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George Hamilton. See (4th Earl of) Aberdeen 2
Example Sentences
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Gordon Tobias teared up each of the four times he went to see Big Boy 4014 in action in Pennsylvania—twice at Valley Forge and twice at Conshohocken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Burnham was an MP between 2001 and 2017, serving as a minister the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
And he is not the first Miliband to hold the role: his brother David was foreign secretary for Gordon Brown from 2007 to 2010.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Gordon Hewlett, 90, part of the last victorious Peterhouse crew in 1956, ate strawberries and cream and drank Champagne as he watched VanderMeer cruise to victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
A Wells-Fargo drayman tried to deliver it to the Wrightwood address but could not locate anyone named Williams or Gordon.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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