English Explanatory Dictionary

Hetherington

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.

Word forms

Hetherington Hetheringtons Etherington Heatherington

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in Northumberland, from either Old English hēahdēor (“deer, stag”) or hǣddre (“heather”) + -ing (“belonging to”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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