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Milton

proper noun

  1. male given name
  2. family name
  3. English poet
  4. place name
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Pronunciation: /ˈmɪltən/

name

Etymology: The English place names are from Old English mylen (“mill”) or middel (“middle”) + tun (“settlement”).

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  22. A habitational surname from Old English, from the multiple places in Britain named "Milton".
  23. A male given name transferred from the surname.

    Herbert, Sydney, Milton, Seymour. You know, all the time I was growing up I thought those were the most ordinary Jewish first names, until someone pointed out that they were British last names. I guess to my great-grandparents those names must have sounded so modern, so sophisticated, so - non-Eastern European. And now they're just Uncle Miltie, Uncle Sy, Uncle Herb. Do other people have Uncle Donne and Uncle Wordsworth?

  24. John Milton, an English author and poet of the seventeenth century.

    The most vulgar man, when he prays, when he suffers, and places hope in heaven, has, at that moment, something in him, which he would express, like Milton, Homer, or Tasso, if education had taught him to clothe his thoughts with words.

  25. John Milton's works or media adaptations of his works.
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