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Caxtons

Caxtons is the plural of Caxton.

Meaning of Caxton

Noun

Caxton (plural Caxtons)

  1. Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.
    • I recall vividly a bright summer morning, many years ago, when, in search of Caxtons, I entered the inner quadrangle of a certain wealthy College in one of our learned Universities.1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 37

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Questions about Caxtons

What is Caxtons the plural of?
Caxtons is the plural of Caxton.

Words near Caxtons in the dictionary

  1. caxixis
  2. caxon
  3. caxons
  4. Caxton
  5. Caxtonian
  6. Caxtons
  7. cay
  8. Caya
  9. Cayabyab
  10. Cayabyabs
  11. cayak

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Caxtons (page history and authors); Caxton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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