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gustavus
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, Latinized form of Swedish Gustaf; first element of unknown origin, second element literally "staff."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 345
Land area (2000): 37.681605 sq. miles (97.594904 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 37.681605 sq. miles (97.594904 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30940
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 58.416327 N, 135.745549 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99826
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Wikipedia
Gustavus may refer to:
- Gustavus, Alaska, a small community located on the edge of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
- Gustavus Adolphus College, a private liberal arts college in southern Minnesota
- Gustavus, the Latin name given to several Swedish kings:
- Gustav I of Sweden (Gustav Vasa)
- Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Gustav II Adolf)
- Gustavus III of Sweden
- Gustaf IV Adolf of Sweden
- Gustaf V of Sweden (Oscar Gustaf Adolf)
- Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (Oskar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf)
- Gustavus Conyngham, merchant sea captain, officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.
- Gustavus Fowke, English cricketer
- Operation Gustavus, WWII British commando operation in Malaya
Gustavus (1818 – after 1842) was a Thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1821 Epsom Derby. Gustavus was the first grey horse to win the Epsom Derby. He raced until he was four years old and was retired to stud in 1823. Gustavus was exported to Prussia in 1836, at the age of 18. Gustavus was not a successful sire.
Usage examples of "gustavus".
Sweden, who called himself Gustavus, which is only an anagram of Augustus.
Dancing was not the precise word, perhaps, but Colonial Attorney General Gustavus Adolphus Brannhard was shuffling about briskly, rather like an amiable bear, swinging his arms vigorously.
War, and had splendidly lost it to Gustavus Adolphus, and then got it back again and held it till Napoleon took it from them.
Gustavus Swift, a Chicago butcher who put together the ice-cooled railway car with the ice-cooled warehouse to make the first national meatpacking company in 1885.
But even though they're anteing up a lot of money to Gustavus Adolphus, they're trying to hedge their bets in case he doesn't win the war—keeping a weather eye out on what the imperials and the Leaguists are doing and the possibility that this abbot could be tossed out and replaced.
Why, with twenty thousand men, Gustavus Adolphus, or the Duke of Parma, or Gonzalo de C6rdoba could have gone through all five of these Great Kingdoms like a dose of croton oil.
The last parcel, for his Highness the Hereditary Duke,' added I, looking most sternly, 'contains the Gustavus Adolphus emerald, which he gave to his princess, and which you pledged to me as a family jewel of your own.
Perhaps not the least interesting of the adventures of these two together was that which culminated in the bestowal upon The Thinking Machine of the Order of the Iron Eagle, second class, by Emperor Gustavus, of Germania-Austria.
Two million widow's mites, to be exact, but still a pittance next to the cost sunk in failing to stop Gustavus Adolphus from reversing every success of Catholic arms of the last fifteen years.