English Explanatory Dictionary

Shackleton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.
  3. Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer.

Word forms

Shackleton Shackletons

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Derived words

Shackletonian
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