Littleton
Littleton proper noun: a village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
Proper noun
Littleton (countable and uncountable, plural Littletons)
- A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
- A locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4466).
- A hamlet in Blandford St Mary parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST8904).
- A village in Littleton and Harestock parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4532).
- A hamlet in Chew Magna parish, Bath and North East Somerset council area, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5563).
- A hamlet in Compton Dundon parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4930).
- A hamlet in Artington parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9847).
- A village near Shepperton, Spelthorne borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0768).
- A hamlet in Semington parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9060).
- 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
- A village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
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- An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
- A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
- A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
- A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
- A town in Halifax County, North Carolina.
- A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
Forms of Littleton
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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.
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