Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A placename:
A suburb of Widnes, Halton borough, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ4885).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7158).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A suburb of Slough, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU9978).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A habitational surname from Old English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A motto or saying.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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History
From Old English dīċ (“ditch, trench, moat”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement”); compare the doublet Deighton.
Borrowed from French dicton (“saying, maxim, proverb, adage”), from Latin dictum. First attested in the late 16th century.
