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Bolton

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɒltən//

A place in the United Kingdom: A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A place in the United Kingdom: A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

    But Bolton deserve real credit, seeking to take advantage of their jitters at every opportunity in typically determined fashion.

  2. 2

    A place in the United Kingdom: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district (OS grid ref NY6323).

  3. 3

    A place in the United Kingdom: A small village in Fangfoss parish, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7752).

  4. 4

    A place in the United Kingdom: A small village in Hedgeley parish, Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU1013).

  5. 5

    A place in the United Kingdom: A northern suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1635).

  6. 6

    A place in the United Kingdom: A small village south of Haddington, East Lothian council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT5070).

  7. 7

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.

  8. 8

    A number of places in the United States: A neighbourhood of Atlanta, Georgia.

  9. 9

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Stephenson County, Illinois.

  10. 10

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Kansas.

  11. 11

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

  12. 12

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Maple Ridge Township, Alpena County, Michigan.

  13. 13

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Hinds County, Mississippi.

  14. 14

    A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Harrison County, Missouri.

  15. 15

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Warren County, New York.

  16. 16

    A number of places in the United States: A town in Columbus County, North Carolina.

  17. 17

    A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Lexington Township, Stark County, Ohio.

  18. 18

    A number of places in the United States: A town and census-designated place therein, in Chittenden County, Vermont.

  19. 19

    A large community in the town of Caledon, Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada.

  20. 20

    A locality in the Rural City of Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia.

  21. 21

    A habitational surname from Old English.

    This was not the first disagreement between the ultra-hawkish Bolton and the occasionally more intervention-skeptic Trump.

Etymology

From Middle English Bodeltone (in the Domesday Book) etc., ultimately from Old English bolt, bold, botl, etc. (“home, hall, manor”) + -tun (“-ton: enclosure, town”).

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).