English Explanatory Dictionary

Crompton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A community in the town of West Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.
noun
  1. A British Rail Class 33 locomotive.

Word forms

Crompton Cromptons Crumpton

Etymology

Habitational surname from a settlement in Greater Manchester, from Old English crumbe (“river bend”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Related words

Shaw and Crompton Bagpipe Slim Jim
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