Alton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːltən/
ipa: /ˈɒltən/
rhymes: -ɔːltən
rhymes: -ɒltən
Etymology: From Old English ǣwell (“river source”) + tūn (“settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A number of places in England:
An undefined locality in Idridgehay and Alton parish, Amber Valley district, Derbyshire, around Alton Hall and Alton Manor.
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A town and civil parish with a town council in East Hampshire district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7139).
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A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire; Alton Towers is to the north (OS grid ref SK0742).
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A civil parish west of Pewsey, Wiltshire, which includes the villages of Alton Barnes and Alton Priors.
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A hamlet in Figheldean parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU1546).
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An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama.
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An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California.
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An unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Florida.
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A city on the Mississippi in Madison County, Illinois.
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A small town in Boone Township, Crawford County, Indiana.
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A city in Sioux County, Iowa.
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A minor city in Osborne County, Kansas.
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An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Kentucky.
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A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
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A township in Waseca County, Minnesota.
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A minor city, the county seat of Oregon County, Missouri.
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A town and census-designated place therein, in Belknap County, New Hampshire.
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A hamlet in the town of Sodus, Wayne County, New York.
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A village in the town of Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island.
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A city in Hidalgo County, Texas.
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A town in Kane County, Utah.
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An unincorporated community in Halifax County, Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
glosses: A rural community of Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A community in the town of Caledon, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A town in the Shire of Balonne, southern Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A rural community in Taranaki, New Zealand.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English.
examples: text: ...because I have learned something about cartoons from Alton Packard. There are two things about Mr Packard that I keep turning over in my mind. One is that his name sounds like Alton Parker, onetime presidential candidate, and the other is that, to me at least, he looks a little bit like Woodrow Wilson.
ref: 1920 The Lyceum Magazine, editor Ralph Albert Parlette, Volume 30, page 15
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.