Gladstone Definition

glădstōn, -stən
noun
A light four-wheeled convertible carriage with two interior seats and places outside for a driver and footman.
American Heritage
A traveling bag hinged so that it can open flat into two compartments of equal size.
Webster's New World
A Gladstone bag.
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A Scottish habitational surname​ from the place in Lanarkshire.

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Any of several other places of the same name.
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William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
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A village in Illinois.

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A town in Manitoba.

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Other Word Forms of Gladstone

Noun

Singular:
Gladstone
Plural:
gladstones

Origin of Gladstone

  • After William Ewart Gladstone

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Gladstone Sentence Examples

  • In 1818 or 1819 Mrs Gladstone, who belonged to the Evangelical school, said in a letter to a friend, that she believed her son William had been " truly converted to God."

  • At his suggestion the duke invited Gladstone to stand for Newark in the Tory interest against Mr Serjeant Wilde, afterwards Lord Chancellor Truro.

  • In 1877 he was appointed by Lord Beaconsfield ambassador at Constantinople, where he remained until Gladstone's return to power in 1880, when he finally retired from public life.

  • Thomas Gladstone (for so the name was modified), became a corn-merchant at Leith.

  • Beginning his commercial career as a clerk in his patron's house, John Gladstone lived to become one of the merchant-princes of Liverpool, a baronet and a member of parliament.

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