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Bretton

Bretton proper noun: a suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).

Proper noun

Bretton (countable and uncountable, plural Brettons)

  1. A suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).
  2. A hamlet in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2077).
  3. A village in Broughton and Bretton community, Flintshire, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3563).
  4. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Bretton

pluralBrettons

Origin of Bretton

From Old English Brett (“Briton”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words formed from Bretton

Questions about Bretton

What does Bretton mean?
Bretton means a suburb and civil parish in the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF1600).
What part of speech is Bretton?
Bretton is a proper noun.

Words near Bretton in the dictionary

  1. Brettica
  2. brettice
  3. bretticed
  4. brettices
  5. bretticing
  6. Bretton
  7. Bretton Woods
  8. Brettons
  9. bretts
  10. bretwalda
  11. bretwaldas

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