Gladstone

¹

[ glad-stohn, -stuhn ]

noun

1. a four-wheel pleasure carriage with a calash top, two inside seats, and dickey seats.
2. Gladstone bag.

Gladstone

²

[ glad-stohn, -stuhn ]

noun

1. William Ew·art [yoo, -ert], 1809–98, British statesman: prime minister four times between 1868 and 1894.
2. a city in NW Missouri.

Gladstone

¹

/ ˈɡlædstən /

noun

1. a light four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle

Gladstone

²

/ ˈɡlædstən /

noun

1. GladstoneWilliam Ewart18091898MBritishPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister William Ewart. 1809–98, British statesman. He became leader of the Liberal Party in 1867 and was four times prime minister (1868–74; 1880–85; 1886; 1892–94). In his first ministry he disestablished the Irish Church (1869) and introduced educational reform (1870) and the secret ballot (1872). He succeeded in carrying the Reform Act of 1884 but failed to gain support for a Home Rule Bill for Ireland, to which he devoted much of the latter part of his career

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gladstone¹

First recorded in 1860–65; after W.E. Gladstone

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gladstone¹

C19: named after W. E. Gladstone

Example Sentences

Foster will vie for limited series lead for “True Detective: Night Country” and Gladstone in limited series supporting for “Under the Bridge.”

From Los Angeles Times

Reis and Gladstone’s nominations are an apparent historic first for Native American women in the Emmys’ acting categories.

From Los Angeles Times

It comes on the heels of Gladstone’s historic Oscar nomination, for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the first for an Indigenous woman.

From Los Angeles Times

Reis will compete in the same category against Lily Gladstone, who plays a police officer in British Columbia looking into the disappearance of a teenage girl in Hulu’s “Under the Bridge.”

From Los Angeles Times

Thanks to a A$400m federal loan, it is building one of the world’s largest alumina refineries near the coastal city of Gladstone, which it says will create hundreds of local jobs.

From BBC