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Compton

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkɒmp.tən//
  • //ˈkɑmp.tən//

Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5279).

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5279).

  2. 2

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A suburban area in Ashbourne parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1846).

  3. 3

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A hamlet in Marldon parish, South Hams district, Devon, the location of Compton Castle (OS grid ref SX8664).

  4. 4

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A village in Compton and Shawford parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4625).

  5. 5

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9547).

  6. 6

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A suburban area in Farnham parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8546).

  7. 7

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in England: A suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO8898).

  8. 8

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas.

  9. 9

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in the United States: A city in Los Angeles County, California.

  10. 10

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in the United States: A village in Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois.

  11. 11

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

  12. 12

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in the United States: A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

  13. 13

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Page County, Virginia.

  14. 14

    Any of several placenames in England and the United States. A municipality in Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Estrie, Quebec, Canada.

  15. 15

    An English habitational surname from Old English from the placenames.

  16. 16

    A male given name transferred from the surname.

Etymology

From Old English Cumbtūn. Equivalent to combe (“valley”) + -ton (“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).