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Ashcroft

Ashcroft proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Ashcroft (countable and uncountable, plural Ashcrofts)

  1. (countable) A surname from Old English.
    • When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those...2024 March 17, Daniel Medina and Bob Ortega, “Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues”, in CNN
  2. A village in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
  3. A ghost town in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
  4. A suburb of Sydney in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

Forms of Ashcroft

pluralAshcrofts

Origin of Ashcroft

Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

Questions about Ashcroft

What does Ashcroft mean?
Ashcroft means a surname from Old English.
What part of speech is Ashcroft?
Ashcroft is a proper noun.

Words near Ashcroft in the dictionary

  1. ashcolored
  2. ashcoloured
  3. Ashcott
  4. Ashcraft
  5. Ashcrafts
  6. Ashcroft
  7. ashcroftine
  8. Ashcrofts
  9. Ashdod
  10. Ashdon
  11. Ashdown

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