Word.ws English Dictionary

Sancton

Sancton proper noun: a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE901392).

Proper noun

Sancton (countable and uncountable, plural Sanctons)

  1. A village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE901392).
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Forms of Sancton

pluralSanctons

Origin of Sancton

Recorded as Sandtona in the Pipe rolls, the placename derives from Old English sand (“sand”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The first part of the name arose through popular association with Old English sanct (“saint”).

Questions about Sancton

What does Sancton mean?
Sancton means a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE901392).
What part of speech is Sancton?
Sancton is a proper noun.

Words near Sancton in the dictionary

  1. sanctions
  2. sanctities
  3. sanctitude
  4. sanctitudes
  5. sanctity
  6. Sancton
  7. Sanctons
  8. sanctuaried
  9. sanctuaries
  10. sanctuarise
  11. sanctuarised

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sancton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Sancton.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sancton. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.