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Littleton

Littleton proper noun: a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Proper noun

Littleton (countable and uncountable, plural Littletons)

  1. A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
  2. A locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4466).
  4. A hamlet in Blandford St Mary parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST8904).
  5. A village in Littleton and Harestock parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4532).
  6. A hamlet in Chew Magna parish, Bath and North East Somerset council area, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5563).
  7. A hamlet in Compton Dundon parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4930).
  8. A hamlet in Artington parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9847).
  9. A village near Shepperton, Spelthorne borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0768).
  10. A hamlet in Semington parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9060).
  11. A home rule municipality, the county seat of Arapahoe County, Colorado.
    • In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.2012 April 3, Laura Smith-Spark, “Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2021
  12. A village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
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  1. An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa.
  2. An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
  3. A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
  4. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  5. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
  6. A town in Halifax County, North Carolina.
  7. A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
  8. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Littleton

pluralLittletons

Origin of Littleton

From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to little + -ton. Doublet of Lyttelton.

Words formed from Littleton

Questions about Littleton

What does Littleton mean?
Littleton means a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
What part of speech is Littleton?
Littleton is a proper noun.

Words near Littleton in the dictionary

  1. littlest known
  2. littlest-known
  3. Littlestone
  4. Littlestone-on-Sea
  5. Littlethunder
  6. Littleton
  7. Littleton and Harestock
  8. Littletons
  9. Littlewood
  10. Littlewood's law
  11. Littlewoods

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