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Milton
Milton, a very common name, usually ‘middle farmstead or estate’, OE middel + tūn; examples include: Milton Cambs. Middeltune c.975, Middeltone 1086 (DB). Milton Oxon., near Didcot. Middeltun 956, Middeltune 1086 (DB). Milton Abbas Dorset. Middeltone 934, Mideltune 1086 (DB), Middelton Abbatis 1268. Latin affix means ‘of the abbot’ with reference to the abbey here. Milton Abbot Devon. Middeltone 1086 (DB), Middelton Abbots 1297. Affix from its early possession by Tavistock Abbey. Milton Bryan Beds. Middelton 1086 (DB), Mideltone Brian 1303. Manorial affix from a 12th cent. owner called Brian. Milton Clevedon Somerset. Mideltune 1086 (DB), Milton Clyvedon 1408. Manorial affix from a family called de Clyvedon, here c.1200. Milton Damerel Devon. Mideltone 1086 (DB), Middelton Aubemarle 1301. Manorial affix from Robert de Albemarle who held the manor in 1086. Milton Ernest Beds. Middeltone 1086 (DB), Middelton Orneys 1330. Manorial affix from early possessions here of a man called Erneis. Milton, Great & Milton, Little Oxon. Mideltone 1086 (DB). Milton Keynes Milt. K. Middeltone 1086 (DB), Middeltone Kaynes 1227. Manorial affix from the de Cahaignes family, here from the 12th cent. Milton Malsor Northants. Mideltone 1086 (DB), Milton alias Middleton Malsor 1781. Manorial affix from the Malsor family, here in the 12th cent. Milton Regis Kent. Middeltun 893, Middeltone 1086 (DB). Affix is Latin regis ‘of the king’. Milton under Wychwood Oxon. Mideltone 1086 (DB). For the affix, see Ascott.
However some Miltons have a different origin, ‘farmstead or village with a mill’, OE myln + tūn; examples include: Milton Cumbria. Milneton 1285. Milton Stoke. Mulneton 1227. |
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A. D. MILLS. "Milton." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Milton." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Milton.html A. D. MILLS. "Milton." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Milton.html |
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Milton
Milton, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA 1. New Zealand (South Island): originally Milltown as a result of its mills, but this spelling was changed, when streets were renamed after famous poets, to honour John Milton (1608–74), a happy coincidence.2. UK (England): a common name generally meaning ‘Middle Farmstead’ from middel and tūn.3. USA (Massachusetts): originally a Native American settlement called Uncataquisset ‘Head of Tidewater’, it was renamed because of the number of mills operating on the Neponset River at this point.4. USA: fourteen other states have cities with this name, some named after the poet, John Milton, others after mills, and yet others after people called Milton or with Milton in their title.
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Milton." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Milton." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Milton.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Milton." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Milton.html |
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Milton
Milton ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from the numerous places so called, a large number of which get their name from Old English mylentūn ‘settlement with a mill’. Others were originally named as ‘the middle settlement (of three)’, from Old English middel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The surname is most famous as that of the poet John Milton (1608–74), and the given name is sometimes bestowed in his honour. Its most illustrious bearer in recent times has been the economist Milton Friedman (1912–2006).
Short form: Milt. |
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Milton." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Milton." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Milton.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Milton." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Milton.html |
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Milton, a poem in two books by W. Blake, written and etched 1804–8, one of his longest and most complex mythological works, which is prefaced by his well-known lines ‘And did those feet in ancient time’, commonly known as ‘Jerusalem’. It uses the mythological and allegorical framework of his earlier poems and also develops Blake's own extremely powerful and personal response to Paradise Lost and its author, which had affected and perplexed his imagination for years (see also under Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The).
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Milton." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Milton." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Milton.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Milton." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Milton.html |
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Milton
Milton town (1990 pop. 25,725), Norfolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on the Neponset River; settled 1636, set off from Dorchester and inc. 1662. Granite quarries are nearby. Milton is the seat of Curry College and several preparatory schools, including Milton Academy (1798). Harvard's meteorological observatory is on Blue Hill. |
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"Milton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Milton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Milton.html "Milton." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Milton.html |
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Milton
Milton (mil-tŏn) n. Trademark. a solution of sodium hypochlorite, used especially for sterilizing babies' feeding bottles.
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"Milton." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Milton." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-Milton.html "Milton." A Dictionary of Nursing. 2008. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O62-Milton.html |
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Milton
Milton •baton, batten, fatten, flatten, harmattan, Manhattan, Mountbatten, paten, patten, pattern, platen, Saturn, slattern
•Shackleton • Appleton
•Hampton, Northampton, Rockhampton, Southampton, Wolverhampton
•Canton, lantern, Scranton
•Langton, plankton
•Clapton
•Aston, pastern
•Gladstone
•Caxton, Paxton
•capstan • Ashton • phytoplankton
•Akhenaten, Akhetaten, Aten, Barton, carton, Dumbarton, hearten, Parton, smarten, spartan, tartan
•Grafton
•Carlton, Charlton
•Charleston • kindergarten
•Aldermaston
•Breton, jetton, Sowetan, threaten, Tibetan
•lectern
•Elton, melton, Skelton
•Denton, Fenton, Kenton, Lenten, Trenton
•Repton
•Avestan, Midwestern, northwestern, Preston, southwestern, western
•sexton
•Clayton, Deighton, Leighton, Paton, phaeton, Satan, straighten, straiten
•Paignton • Maidstone
•beaten, Beaton, Beeton, Cretan, Keaton, neaten, Nuneaton, overeaten, sweeten, uneaten, wheaten
•chieftain
•eastern, northeastern, southeastern
•browbeaten • weatherbeaten
•bitten, bittern, Britain, Briton, Britten, handwritten, hardbitten, kitten, Lytton, mitten, smitten, underwritten, witan, written
•Clifton
•Milton, Shilton, Stilton, Wilton
•Middleton • singleton • simpleton
•Clinton, Linton, Minton, Quinton, Winton
•cistern, Liston, piston, Wystan
•brimstone • Winston • Kingston
•Addington • Eddington
•Workington
•Arlington, Darlington
•skeleton
•Ellington, wellington
•exoskeleton
•cosmopolitan, megalopolitan, metropolitan, Neapolitan
•Burlington • Hamilton • badminton
•lamington • Germiston • Penistone
•Bonington • Orpington • Samaritan
•Carrington, Harrington
•sacristan • Festschriften
•Sherrington • typewritten
•Warrington • puritan • Fredericton
•Lexington • Occitan • Washington
•Whittington • Huntington
•Galveston • Livingstone
•Kensington
•Blyton, brighten, Brighton, Crichton, enlighten, frighten, heighten, lighten, righten, tighten, titan, triton, whiten
•begotten, cotton, forgotten, ill-gotten, misbegotten, rotten
•Compton, Crompton
•wanton • Longton
•Boston, postern
•boughten, chorten, foreshorten, Laughton, Morton, Naughton, Orton, quartan, quartern, shorten, tauten, torten, Wharton
•Alton, Dalton, Galton, saltern, Walton
•Taunton • Allston • Launceston
•croton, Dakotan, Minnesotan, oaten, verboten
•Bolton, Doulton, molten
•Folkestone • Royston
•Luton, newton, rambutan, Teuton
•Houston • Fulton
•button, glutton, Hutton, mutton
•sultan
•doubleton, subaltern
•fronton • Augustan • Dunstan
•tungsten • quieten • Pinkerton
•charlatan • Wollaston • Palmerston
•Edmonton • automaton • Sheraton
•Geraldton • Chatterton • Betterton
•Chesterton • Athelstan
•burton, curtain, uncertain
•Hurston
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"Milton." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 12 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Milton." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 12, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Milton.html "Milton." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 12, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Milton.html |
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