English Explanatory Dictionary

Chesterton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in England:
  3. A suburb of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL4660).
  4. A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, on the outskirts of Peterborough (OS grid ref TL1295).
  5. A suburb of Cirencester, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP0100).
  6. A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5621).
  7. A hamlet in Worfield parish, south-east Shropshire (OS grid ref SO7897).
  8. A northern suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SJ8349).
  9. A small village in Chesterton and Kingston parish, Stratford-on-Avon district, Warwickshire (OS grid ref SP3558).
  10. A town in Porter County, Indiana, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈt͡ʃɛs.tə.tən/ /ˈt͡ʃɛs.tɚ.tən/

Word forms

Chesterton Chestertons

Etymology

From Chester + -ton. For the place in the United States, from a shortening of Westchester (the name of the township it belongs to) + -ton.

Derived words

Chesterton and Kingston Chestertonian Chesterton's fence
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