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Shackleton

Shackleton proper noun: a surname from Old English.

Proper noun

Shackleton (countable and uncountable, plural Shackletons)

  1. A surname from Old English.
  2. A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.
  3. Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer.

Forms of Shackleton

pluralShackletons

Origin of Shackleton

Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Words formed from Shackleton

Questions about Shackleton

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

Words near Shackleton in the dictionary

  1. shacklers
  2. shackles
  3. shackless
  4. shacklest
  5. shackleth
  6. Shackleton
  7. Shackletonian
  8. Shackletons
  9. Shacklett
  10. Shackletts
  11. Shackley

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