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Barton

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈbɑː(ɹ)tən//

Any of many places in England: A hamlet in Barton and Pooley Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4826).

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of many places in England: A hamlet in Barton and Pooley Bridge parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY4826).

  2. 2

    Any of many places in England: A hamlet in Temple Guiting parish, Cotswold district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SP1025).

  3. 3

    Any of many places in England: A village in Preston, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5137).

  4. 4

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: An unincorporated community in Amador County, California.

  5. 5

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A ghost town and community in Fresno County, California.

  6. 6

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A town in Maryland.

  7. 7

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: An unincorporated community in Deuel County, Nebraska, derived from the surname.

  8. 8

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A town in Tioga County, New York.

  9. 9

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.

  10. 10

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: An unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon.

  11. 11

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A town and village in Orange County, Vermont.

  12. 12

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A river in northern Vermont.

  13. 13

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A town in Wisconsin.

  14. 14

    Any of many places named after the English places, or after persons with the surname, including: A community in Nova Scotia.

  15. 15

    An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

  16. 16

    A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.

  17. 17

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

    As Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman showed in his brilliant biography, Cheney deployed his masterful knowledge of policymaking to exert influence at all levels of government.

Etymology

From Old English bere (“barley”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure”).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).