English Explanatory Dictionary

Girton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placename:
  2. A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4262).
  3. A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8266).
  4. Ellipsis of Girton College, Cambridge.
  5. A habitational surname from Old English.

Word forms

Girton Girtons Girten

Etymology

From Old English grēot (“gravel”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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