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Proper noun
Gladstone
- A Scottish habitational surname from Old English.
- William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister.
- Any of places of the same name.
- A city in Queensland, Australia.
- Gladstone Region, a local government area in central Queensland, which includes the city.
- A small rural town in South Australia.
- An unincorporated urban commity in Manitoba.
- A community of Thames Centre, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.
- A suburb of Invercargill, New Zealand.
- A locality in Carterton district, North Island, New Zealand.
- An area near Levin, New Zealand.
- A village south of Greymouth, New Zealand.
- A community and former town in the city of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California.
- A village in Henderson County, Illinois.
- A city in Delta County, Michigan.
- A city in Clay County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
- An unincorporated community in Somerset County, New Jersey.
- An unincorporated community in Union County, New Mexico.
- A tiny city in Stark County, North Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Greene County, Ohio.
- A city in Clackamas County, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
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Noun
Gladstone (plural Gladstones)
- Ellipsis of Gladstone bag.
1928, Rudyard Kipling, Dayspring Mishandled:Would we help him to pack his Gladstone?
1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 7, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:I lit a cigarette and got all dressed and then I packed these two Gladstones I have. It only took me about two minutes.
- (historical) A four-wheeled two-seated carriage with driver's seat and dicky.
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