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Drayton

  • /ˈdɹeɪ.tən/

Rhymes with -eɪtən

Where it comes from

From Middle English Drayton, from Old English Drægtūn (literally “town where logs are dragged”), from draġan (“to draw, drag”) + tūn (“enclosure, town”). Alternatively from Proto-Brythonic *treβ (“town, settlement”) + Old English tūn.

proper noun Draytons

  1. countable, uncountable A suburban area of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU672860).
  2. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Harborough district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP830922).
  3. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG185135).
  4. countable, uncountable A suburb of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5662).
  5. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4241).
  6. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish near Abingdon, Vale of White Horse district, Oxfordshire.
  7. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST404248).
  8. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Chaddesley Corbett parish, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SO906760).
  9. countable, uncountable A locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland, Australia.
  10. countable, uncountable A community in Wellington County, Ontario, Canada.
  11. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Dooly County, Georgia, United States.
  12. countable, uncountable A city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
  13. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
  14. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{drayton_2026,
  title = {Drayton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/drayton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}