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Halton

  • /ˈhɒl.tən/ UK
  • /ˈhɔːl.tən/ UK
  • /ˈhɔl.tən/ US
  • /ˈhɑl.tən/ Canada, cot caught merger

Rhymes with -ɒltən, -ɔːltən

Where it comes from

* (Halton, Ontario, Canada): Named after William Mathew Halton, a British colonial bureaucrat in Upper Canada.

proper noun Haltons

  1. countable, uncountable The Borough of Halton, a unitary authority and borough in Cheshire, England, formed in 1974.
  2. countable, uncountable A village in Runcorn, Cheshire, England, which gave its name to the above borough (OS grid ref SJ5381).
  3. countable, uncountable A village in Aylesbury Vale district, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8710).
  4. countable, uncountable A village in Halton-with-Aughton parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5064).
  5. countable, uncountable A suburban area in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE3433).
  6. countable, uncountable A village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NY9967).
  7. countable, uncountable A regional municipality in southern Ontario, Canada.

    Similar: Halton Region, Region of Halton, Regional Municipality of Halton, Halton Regional Municipality

  8. countable, uncountable A county of Southern Ontario, Ontario, Canada.

    Similar: Halton County, County of Halton

  9. countable, uncountable A locality in the Dungog council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  10. countable, uncountable A surname.

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Halton. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/halton

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@misc{halton_2026,
  title = {Halton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/halton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}