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# gladstone

«gladstone» in Mova's school dictionary: **William Ewart Gladstone, a British Prime Minister four…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, a name (Gladstone); noun (a Gladstone bag, Gladstone bags)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) William Ewart Gladstone, a British Prime Minister four times in the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#m1)

2) A Gladstone bag: an old-fashioned leather travelling bag that opens wide into two halves, like a doctor's bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#m2)

3) (a name) Gladstone is also a place name, for example a city in Queensland, Australia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons Gladstone appears with Queen Victoria and his rival Disraeli. In old stories a doctor or traveller carries a Gladstone bag. Usually with a capital G.

### examples

- William Gladstone was Prime Minister four times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#x1)
- The doctor opened his Gladstone bag and took out a stethoscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#x2)
- Gladstone and Disraeli argued in Parliament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#x3)
- Gladstone is a port city in Queensland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#x4)
- Grandad's old Gladstone bag is in the attic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/#x5)

### note

Capital G as a name and usually in «Gladstone bag». Pronounced GLAD-stun. It is not a kind of stone.

### In the corpora

- [Even in Britain at the time, many people, like the young William Gladstone, called the war shameful.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/57-china-the-qing-and-the-opium-wars/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gladstone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gladstone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.