Definitions

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  • proper noun A female given name.

Etymologies

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Anglicized from Welsh Gwladus, of uncertain origin, associated with Claudia.

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Examples

  • GLADYS - Rep. Tom Perriello told Gladys community members on Monday that he feels a special connection to Gladys Elementary School, but won't second-guess a local school board decision to recommend its closure.

    News for WSLS 10 WSLS 10 2010

  • GLADYS - Rep. Tom Perriello told Gladys community members on Monday that he feels a special connection to Gladys Elementary School, but won't second-guess a local school board decision to recommend its closure.

    News for Lynchburg News Advance Lynchburg News Advance 2010

  • GLADYS - Rep. Tom Perriello told Gladys community members on Monday that he feels a special connection to Gladys Elementary School, but won't second-guess a local school board decision to recommend its closure.

    News for Lynchburg News Advance Lynchburg News Advance 2010

  • GLADYS - Rep. Tom Perriello told Gladys community members on Monday that he feels a special connection to Gladys Elementary School, but won't second-guess a local school board decision to recommend its closure.

    News for WSLS 10 WSLS 10 2010

  • GLADYS - Rep. Tom Perriello told Gladys community members on Monday that he feels a special connection to Gladys Elementary School, but won't second-guess a local school board decision to recommend its closure.

    News for Lynchburg News Advance Lynchburg News Advance 2010

  • GLADYS - Rep. Tom Perriello told Gladys community members on Monday that he feels a special connection to Gladys Elementary School, but won't second-guess a local school board decision to recommend its closure.

    News for Lynchburg News Advance Lynchburg News Advance 2010

  • The center of the plot was Saint-Étienne (one of the locations mentioned inCircuit ), headquartered at the house of the former Resistance worker Thérèse Obertaud (wartime code name Gladys), where a police raid on the night of May 16–17, 1958, found a cache of machine guns and other arms.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The center of the plot was Saint-Étienne (one of the locations mentioned inCircuit ), headquartered at the house of the former Resistance worker Thérèse Obertaud (wartime code name Gladys), where a police raid on the night of May 16–17, 1958, found a cache of machine guns and other arms.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The center of the plot was Saint-Étienne (one of the locations mentioned inCircuit ), headquartered at the house of the former Resistance worker Thérèse Obertaud (wartime code name Gladys), where a police raid on the night of May 16–17, 1958, found a cache of machine guns and other arms.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • That would be the vanguard of Happy Bottom, as they called Gladys here.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

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