English

Alternative forms

• Gorden

Proper noun

Gordon

1. A surname​.
   • 1822 Walter Scott, Poetical Works: Halidon Hill (Baudry's European Library, 1838), page 420:

     Mount, vassals, couch your lances, and cry, "Gordon!

     Gordon for Scotland and Elizabeth!"

2. Any of several places, outside Scotland named for persons with the surname.
3. A male given name transferred from the surname. Popular in the UK in the first half of the 20th century.
   • 1913 Harry Leon Wilson, Bunker Bean (BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2008, ISBN 0554347148), page 13:

     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.

References

• Reaney & Wilson: A Dictionary of English Surnames, OUP 1997
• ‘Gordon’ in Behind the Name, Mike Campbell, 1996.

Anagrams

• drongo
• Grodno

Scots

Etymology

From Early Scots Gordoun, from Old English gor-dūn ‎(“mud hill”).

Proper noun

Gordon

1. Gordon (Scottish Borders)

Hungarian

Noun

gordon ‎(plural gordonok)

1. (music) double bass, contrabass

Declension

Synonyms

• nagybőgő

Derived terms

• gordonka

References

1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6

Northern Sami

Verb

gordon

1. first-person singular imperative of goardit