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Cockerton

Cockerton proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Cockerton (plural Cockertons)

  1. A surname from Old English.

Forms of Cockerton

pluralCockertons

Origin of Cockerton

Habitational surname from an area of Darlington, in County Durham, from the name of a local river + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Questions about Cockerton

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

Words near Cockerton in the dictionary

  1. cockernony
  2. cockerpoo
  3. cockerpoos
  4. cockers
  5. cockers up
  6. Cockerton
  7. Cockertons
  8. cocket
  9. cocket writer
  10. cocket writers
  11. cocket-bread

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