Definitions for GORDON
ˈgɔr dngor·don

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Gordonnoun

   Any of several places, outside Scotland named for persons with the surname.

2. Gordonnoun

   transferred from the surname. Popular in the UK in the first half of the 20th century.

3. Etymology: From a Scottish surname which was originally descended of a place name that means ‘spacious fort’.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gordon

   Gordon is a given name of Scottish origin, typically used as a surname as well. It can also refer to a male given name of English, Irish, or Scottish origin meaning "great hill" or "fortified hill."

WikidataRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Gordon

   Gordon is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which elects one member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. It was first used in the 1983 general election, but has undergone boundary changes since that date.

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gordon

   Song lyrics by gordon -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by gordon on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GORDON

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Gordon is ranked #161 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Gordon surname appeared 161,833 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 55 would have the surname Gordon.
   
   64.2% or 103,978 total occurrences were White.
   29.1% or 47,174 total occurrences were Black.
   3% or 4,920 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.2% or 3,657 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 1,100 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.6% or 1,003 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'GORDON' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3812

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'GORDON' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3150

Anagrams for GORDON »

1. drongo

2. Grodno

How to pronounce GORDON?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say GORDON in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of GORDON in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of GORDON in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of GORDON in a Sentence

1. Dan Coats:

   It has been a privilege serving with Sue Gordon to lead the ODNI and Intelligence Community over these past two years. Sue Gordon is a visionary leader who has made an enormous impact on the IC over the more than three decades Sue Gordon has served, i have had the pleasure of working with Joseph Maguire as part of my leadership team at ODNI, and I am pleased that the President has announced that Joe will serve as Acting DNI. Joe has had a long, distinguished career serving the nation and will lead the men and women in the IC with distinction.

2. Donald Duncan:

   In 1997 we were the fastest growing manufacturing metro area in the country and four years later it collapsed, what you can see on the ground today is 3,000 job openings. China's emergence as the world's low-cost producer and export superpower following its World Trade Organization entry in 2001 dealt a heavy blow to traditional industrial communities such as Hickory. Economists David Autor, David Dorn and Gordon Hanson have tried to separate the impact of trade from other factors affecting U.S. manufacturing employment and they estimate that between 1990 and 2007 Hickory lost 16 percent of its manufacturing jobs just due to surging imports from China. DEEP SCARS. Buffeted by other headwinds, such as the 1994 North American Free Trade agreement and the lifting of textile quotas in 2004, the area lost 40,000 manufacturing jobs overall, half the total, between 2000 and 2009. Nationally, more than 5 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since 2000, a period that also included the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The collapse left deep and still visible scars that help explain the appeal of Trump's pledge to bring back manufacturing's glory days. In Hickory, disability rolls soared more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2014, swollen by older workers who struggled to return to the workforce. At the same time, the share of the 25-34 year old in the population fell by almost a fifth between 2000 and 2010. Consequently, even as the unemployment rate tumbled from a peak above 15 percent in 2010 to 4.6 percent today, below the national average, so did the labor force participation rate. It fell from above 68 percent in 2000 to below 59 percent in 2014. Poverty levels doubled. Yet the manufacturing upswing in areas that suffered the most during the downturn is evident. Rust belt states, such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that may prove pivotal in the Nov. 8 presidential election, have been adding manufacturing jobs faster than the economy as a whole. Michigan, for example, which lost nearly half of its manufacturing jobs between 2000 and 2009, has since then seen a 25 percent rise, well above the 4 percent gain nationally. Manufacturing employment there is still well below the levels in the 1990s. Economists debate whether returning to that level is realistic given technological advances that have reduced manufacturing's share of the workforce from a high of above 30 percent in the 1950s to around 8 percent today. But they also feel that have already seen the bottom, particularly when it comes to China's impact.

3. Jamie Oliver:

   Gordon will do anything to try and take the piss out of me because he is deeply jealous and can't quite work out why I do what I do and why he can't do that, he is too busy shouting and screaming and making our industry look like a bunch of shouters and screamers.

4. President Donald Trump:

   Well, I'm not happy with Gordon Sondland, you think I'm supposed to be happy with Gordon Sondland ? I'm not.

5. Jimmie Johnson:

   Our sport is going to be different without him, for 23 years he's been such a force on the track. Our sport is not going to necessarily suffer from (Gordon's retirement), but it's just not the same. It's Jeff Gordon.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gordon
2. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=GORDON
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html