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Definition of Gladstone

1. Noun. Liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898).

Definition of Gladstone

1. n. A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

Definition of Gladstone

1. Proper noun. (surname Scottish habitational from=Old English dot=) from the place in Lanarkshire. ¹

2. Proper noun. Any of several other places of the same name. ¹

3. Proper noun. William Ewart Gladstone, British Prime Minister. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gladstone

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladstone

Literary usage of Gladstone

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"One of Mr. Gladstone, by Marochetti. stands in the hall at the foot of the ... In the corner by the fire-place is an alto-relievo of Herbert Gladstone in ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1887)
"MR Gladstone AND THE IRISH QUESTION. No apology is necessary for the above ... For Mr Gladstone depends for his future career as entirely upon the Irish ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"At the beginning of 1875 Gladstone carried into effect the resolution which ... The learned leisure which Gladstone had promised himself when released from ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"In the article on " The Dawn of Creation and Worship," f it will remembered that Mr. Gladstone unreservedly commits himself to th propositions. ..."

5. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"It is, we are convinced, utterly false that Mr. Gladstone entertains, ... A task, always of great difficulty, was surmounted by Mr. Gladstone with such ..."

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