Ashton Definition

pronoun
A common place name in England.
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A habitational surname​ derived from the place names.

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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A female given name.
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Origin of Ashton

  • From Old English æsc (“ash (tree species)”) + tūn (“enclosure, settlement”).

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Ashton Sentence Examples

  • The British Museum had been formed, and he had access to everything it contained in addition to the abundant materials afforded him by the private museum of Sir Ashton Lever.'

  • Lord Bryce married, in 1880, Elizabeth Marion, daughter of Thomas Ashton, of Hyde, and sister of the 1st Lord Ashton of Hyde.

  • Alford's early years were passed with his widowed father, who was curate of Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire.

  • In the following month Lord Derby regained it for the Royalists, but Colonel Ashton soon retook it and demolished the works.

  • Ashton, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton and Wigan form a nearly confluent semicircle of great towns, their prosperity founded on the underlying coal and iron, maintained by imported cotton.

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