Gould

American  

[goold] / guld /

noun

1. Chester, 1900–85, U.S. cartoonist: creator of the comic strip “Dick Tracy.”

2. Glenn Herbert, 1932–82, Canadian pianist and composer.

3. Jay, 1836–92, U.S. financier.

4. Morton, 1913–1996, U.S. composer and pianist.

5. Stephen Jay, 1941–2002, U.S. paleontologist, biologist, and science writer.

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Gould British  

/ ɡuːld /

noun

1. Benjamin Apthorp. 1824–96, US astronomer: the first to use the telegraph to determine longitudes; founded the Astronomical Journal (1849)

2. Glenn. 1932–82, Canadian pianist

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Gould Scientific  

/ go̅o̅ld /

1. American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who with Niles Eldredge developed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. He published numerous books which popularized his sometimes controversial ideas on evolutionary theory among the general public.

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Within a few decades, railroad fortunes like those of Jay Gould, E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill and Cornelius Vanderbilt were among the largest in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Matthew Josephson’s group portrait of the most powerful men of the Gilded Age—his subjects include Jay Gould, James Fisk, John D. Rockefeller and J.P.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

And the author draws on the warning of Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologists who cautioned against reading every trait as a perfect adaptation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Richard Gould, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, and Richard Thompson, the chair, opted against a change that felt inevitable.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Gould he make Esther Hartlieb believe that the two of them had fallen off a bridge?

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke