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Littleton

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From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to little + -ton. Doublet of Lyttelton.

proper noun Littletons

  1. countable, uncountable A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
  2. countable, uncountable A locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  3. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4466).
  4. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Blandford St Mary parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST8904).
  5. countable, uncountable A village in Littleton and Harestock parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4532).
  6. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Chew Magna parish, Bath and North East Somerset council area, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5563).
  7. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Compton Dundon parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4930).
  8. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Artington parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9847).
  9. countable, uncountable A village near Shepperton, Spelthorne borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0768).
  10. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Semington parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9060).
  11. countable, uncountable A home rule municipality, the county seat of Arapahoe County, Colorado. In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.
  12. countable, uncountable A village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
  13. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa.
  14. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
  15. countable, uncountable A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
  16. countable, uncountable A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
  17. countable, uncountable A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
  18. countable, uncountable A town in Halifax County, North Carolina.
  19. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
  20. countable, uncountable A habitational surname from Old English.

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@misc{littleton_2026,
  title = {Littleton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/littleton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}