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Chilton

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From Old English ċilda tūn, a compound of ċilda (genitive plural of ċild (“child”)) + tūn (“town”). The name of Chilton, Oxfordshire is attested under various spellings in Medieval Latin texts of the 11th and 12th centuries: Cilda tun, Childatun, Chiltune, Chiltuna, Ciltone, Cilletone (in the Domesday Book), and Childestuna.

proper noun Chiltons

  1. countable, uncountable A surname.
  2. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, formerly in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6811).
  3. countable, uncountable A small town and civil parish with a town council in County Durham (OS grid ref NZ2829).
  4. countable, uncountable A western suburb of Ramsgate, Thanet district, Kent (OS grid ref TR3664).
  5. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SU4885).
  6. countable, uncountable A civil parish and settlement in Babergh district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL8842).
  7. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Carter County, Missouri.
  8. countable, uncountable A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Falls County, Texas.
  9. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Calumet County, Wisconsin.
  10. countable, uncountable A town in Calumet County, Wisconsin, partially within which the city is.
  11. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Chilton County

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@misc{chilton_2026,
  title = {Chilton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chilton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}