English Explanatory Dictionary

Swainston

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

Swainston Swainstons

Etymology

Habitational surname from a minor place in the parish of Elwick, County Durham, from the Old Norse personal name Sveinn + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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