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Picton

Picton proper noun: a hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ4107).

Proper noun

Picton (countable and uncountable, plural Pictons)

  1. A hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ4107).
  2. A hamlet and former civil parish in Mickle Trafford and District parish, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4371).
  3. A former ward in Liverpool, Merseyside, Lancashire, England, abolished in 2023.
  4. A small town in Wollondilly Shire, New South Wales, Australia, named after Thomas Picton.
  5. A suburb of the City of Bunbury, Western Australia.
  6. A town and ferry port in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand.
  7. An unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
  8. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Picton

pluralPictons

Origin of Picton

From either the Old English personal name *Pīca or pīc (“point, peak, pinnacle”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words formed from Picton

Phrases with Picton

Questions about Picton

What does Picton mean?
Picton means a hamlet and civil parish (without a council) in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Hambleton district (OS grid ref NZ4107).
What part of speech is Picton?
Picton is a proper noun.

Words near Picton in the dictionary

  1. pictographs
  2. pictography
  3. pictology
  4. pictomicrograph
  5. pictomicrographs
  6. Picton
  7. Picton herring
  8. Picton herrings
  9. Pictones
  10. Pictons
  11. pictophonetic

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