Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definitions: Gladstone |
GladstoneNoun1. Liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898). 2. A large travelling bag made of stiff leather. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gladstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1887. (references) |
Etymology: Gladstone \Glad"stone\, noun. [Named after Wm. English Gladstone.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | GLADSTONE, W. E., a grand old man who twice premiered England, chopped trees, and failed to make accurate measurements with the Irish home rule. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: GladstoneSynonym: portmanteau (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gladstone |
| English words defined with "Gladstone": Eugene Gladstone O'Neill ♦ Gladstone bag ♦ William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Gladstone": Dim and Distant Future, Diplomatic Cold ♦ GLADSTONE ♦ Kick the Beam ♦ Liberal Unionists ♦ Refreshments. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Hotel Gladstone, Narragansett, R.I.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gladstone, N.J.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hon. William Ewart Gladstone.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gladstone, North Carolina. Farmers attending Food for Victory meeting sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. Leon Israel, residence in Gladstone, New Jersey. Big tree and house.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.P. Firemens tournament, Gladstone, July 31 - August 1-2-3, 1912; Wells Fire Department took first prize at Gladstone, July 31, 1912.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
William E. Gladstone | Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong. |
| No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. | |
| Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. | |
William Ewart Gladstone | Justice delayed is justice denied. |
| You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. | |
| National injustice is the surest road to national downfall. | |
| The American Revolution. . . was a conservative revolution. | |
| Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. | |
| Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Among them William Ewart Gladstone, just then dead. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Robin Cook | Well, there's quite a big rebellion among the labor ranks. People said the last vote we had in this was the biggest government rebellion since the days of Gladstone over a century ago. And it was even bigger tonight. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Gladstone" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gladstone" is used about 232 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 232 | 19,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Gladstone" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Gladstone | Last name | 1,000 | 9,239 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Gladstone PLC |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Gladstone, IL (village, FIPS 29431) 2. Gladstone, MI (city, FIPS 32300) 3. Gladstone, MO (city, FIPS 27190) 4. Gladstone, ND (city, FIPS 30460) 5. Gladstone, NJ 6. Gladstone, NM 7. Gladstone, OR (city, FIPS 29000) 8. Gladstone, VA |
Expressions using "Gladstone": Eugene Gladstone O'Neill ♦ Gladstone bag ♦ Peapack and Gladstone ♦ William Ewart Gladstone ♦ William Gladstone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Gladstone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Karrocë Me Dy Vende, Çantë Prej Lëkure. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Лек Куфар, "вуместна Кола. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Könnyû Útitáska. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Valigia Leggera A Soffietto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adstoneglay Agradável (agreeable, amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, glory, good humoured, good natured, good-humored, goodly, gracious, grate, gratefully, Hale, hopeful, kindly, lovely, merry, music box, musical comedy, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, racy, restful, she is pretty, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, stunner, suave, taking, welcome, well done, well-natured). (various references) Кожаный Саквояж, "вухместный Экипаж. (various references) gledston. (various references) กระเป๋าเ"ินทางขนา"เล็กที่แบ่งเปิ"ออกเป็นสองส่วนเท่าๆ กัน (Gladstone bag). (various references) Deri Bavul, Bir Tür Araba. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Gladstone": gladstones. (additional references) | |
| |
"Gladstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Garstone, Giasone, gladstones, Glasstone, Gledstane, Glouston. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Gladstone" (pronounced gla"dstō'n) |
| 5 | -d s t ō' n | bloodstone, Goldstone, grindstone, headstone, lodestone, sandstone. |
| 4 | -s t ō' n | Bluestone, brownstone, capstone, cherrystone, cobblestone, cornerstone, curbstone, Eyestone, Firestone, flagstone, Freestone, gallstone, gemstone, gravestone, greenstone, hailstone, keystone, limestone, milestone, millstone, moonstone, rhinestone, steppingstone, tombstone, touchstone, whetstone. |
| 3 | -t ō' n | acetone, baritone, halftone, monotone, overtone, undertone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: tangelos. | |
-2 letters: daltons, dangles, dentals, donates, dongles, dotages, etalons, gelants, gelatos, glandes, gloated, goldest, lagends, legatos, longest, onstage, sandlot, slanged, slanted, solated, stanged, taloned, tangelo, tangled, tangles, tangoed, tolanes. | |
-3 letters: agents, aglets, agones, aldose, angels, angled, angles, anodes, anoles, atoned, atones, dagoes, dalton, dangle, deltas, dental, desalt, donate, dongas, dongle, dosage, dotage, elands. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: desolating, gladstones. | |
+2 letters: delegations, gadolinites, goaltenders. | |
+3 letters: desolatingly, goaltendings, nondelegates, stranglehold. | |
+4 letters: battlegrounds, deflagrations, deglaciations, deregulations, strangleholds. | |
+5 letters: advantageously, degranulations, dogmaticalness, gastroduodenal, peptidoglycans, snaggletoothed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 6C 61 64 73 74 6F 6E 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. .- -.. ... - --- -. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101100 01100001 01100100 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G l a d s t o n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 006C 0061 0064 0073 0074 006F 006E 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417867708586818071 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Usage Frequency 11. Names: Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Cities 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
