Ashcroft

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Ashcroft

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Habitational surname from two minor places in England, from Old English æsċ (“ash tree”) + croft (“enclosed field”).

proper noun Ashcrofts

countable A surname from Old English. When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft jumped into the state’s gubernatorial race last year, the Republican vowed to tackle a slew of culture war issues, promising to fight the “woke politics” of “left-wing” banks and touting how he used his position to enact a regulation targeting those fina
countable, uncountable A village in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
countable, uncountable A ghost town in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States.
countable, uncountable A suburb of Sydney in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

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@misc{ashcroft_2026,
  title = {Ashcroft},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ashcroft},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}