English Explanatory Dictionary

Tilton

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A placename:
  3. A village in Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States.
  5. An unincorporated community in Fleming County, Kentucky, United States.
  6. A town in Belknap County, New Hampshire, United States.

Word forms

Tilton Tiltons

Etymology

Habitational surname from the village of Tilton on the Hill, in Leicestershire, from the Old English personal name Tila + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Derived words

Tilton on the Hill
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