English Explanatory Dictionary

Poppleton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Word forms

Poppleton Poppletons

Etymology

Habitational surname from the villages of Nether and Upper Poppleton, in North Yorkshire, from Old English *popel (“pebble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Derived words

Nether Poppleton Upper Poppleton
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