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Poppleton

Poppleton proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Poppleton (countable and uncountable, plural Poppletons)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A neighbourhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

Forms of Poppleton

pluralPoppletons

Origin of Poppleton

Habitational surname from the villages of Nether and Upper Poppleton, in North Yorkshire, from Old English *popel (“pebble”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words formed from Poppleton

Questions about Poppleton

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

Words near Poppleton in the dictionary

  1. popple
  2. poppled
  3. popples
  4. Popplestone
  5. Popplestones
  6. Poppleton
  7. Poppletons
  8. Popplewell
  9. Popplewells
  10. poppling
  11. popply

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