English Explanatory Dictionary

Botten

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɒtən/

Word forms

Botten Bottens

Etymology

Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button. * English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word. Compare Botner.

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