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語源

Borrowed from Hebrew גִּדְעוֹן (gid'ón, “Gideon”) ("feller", "hewer", "mighty warrior").

発音

• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈɡɪd.i.ən/
• 韻: -ɪdiən

固有名詞

Gideon

1. (biblical) A warrior judge of Israel mentioned in the book of Judges.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 7:7:

     And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

2. A male given name from Hebrew, popularized by Puritans.
   • 2019 March 8, Elyse Wanshel, “He Was Mad His Photo Was Used To Show All Hipsters Look Alike, But It Wasn't Him”, in HuffPost‎, archived from the original on 28 March 2019:

     “He accused us of slandering him, presumably by implying he was a hipster, and of using the pic without his permission,” Gideon Lichfield, the Review’s editor-in-chief, explained Tuesday on Twitter.

3. An English surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A city in Missouri, United States; named for lumber businessman Frank Gideon.
5. A census-designated place in Oklahoma, United States.

名詞

Gideon (plural Gideons)

1. (Christianity) A member of Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association, founded in 1899, that distributes free copies of the Bible.

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