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Norton

  • /ˈnɔɹtən/ US
  • [ˈnɔɹɾn̩] US
  • [ˈnɔɹʔn̩] US
  • /ˈnɔːtən/ UK

Where it comes from

From Old English norþ (“north”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

The parish in New Brunswick is named after Norton, Massachusetts.

proper noun Nortons

  1. countable, uncountable A suburb of Runcorn, Halton borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5582).
  2. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Hartland parish, Torridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SS2625).
  3. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Dartmouth parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8551).
  4. countable, uncountable A suburban area in Stockton-on-Tees borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ4422).

    Similar: Norton-on-Tees

  5. countable, uncountable A hamlet in South Heighton parish, Lewes district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ4701).
  6. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Tewkesbury district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8524).
  7. countable, uncountable A suburban village in north-east Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL2334).
  8. countable, uncountable A settlement in Freshwater parish, Isle of Wight (OS grid ref SZ3489).
  9. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP6063).
  10. countable, uncountable A village in Norton, Cuckney, Holbeck and Welbeck parish, Bassetlaw district, Nottinghamshire, previously in Norton and Cuckney parish (OS grid ref SK5772).
  11. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Culmington parish, south Shropshire (OS grid ref SO4681).
  12. countable, uncountable A settlement in Stockton parish, east Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ7200).
  13. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Wroxeter and Uppington parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ5609).
  14. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Kewstoke parish, North Somerset, Somerset, just north of Weston-super-Mare (OS grid ref ST3463).
  15. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE5415).
  16. countable, uncountable A southern suburb of the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE3682).
  17. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TL9565).
  18. countable, uncountable A suburb of Stourbridge, Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO8982).
  19. countable, uncountable A settlement in Aldingbourne parish, Arun district, West Sussex (OS grid ref SU9206).
  20. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Selsey parish, Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref SZ8695).
  21. countable, uncountable A small village and civil parish (without a council) in north-west Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8884).
  22. countable, uncountable A village in Norton and Lenchwick parish, Wychavon district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SP0447).
  23. countable, uncountable A village in Norton-juxta-Kempsey parish, Wychavon district, Worcestershire, the location of Norton Barracks (OS grid ref SO8751).
  24. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Skenfrith community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref SO4420).
  25. countable, uncountable A village in Presteigne community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO3067).
  26. countable, uncountable A suburb in Mumbles community, City and County of Swansea, Wales (OS grid ref SS6618).
  27. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Penrice community, City and County of Swansea (OS grid ref SS4986).
  28. countable, uncountable A civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
  29. countable, uncountable A rural municipality in south-east Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Norton No. 69.
  30. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Norton County, Kansas, United States.
  31. countable, uncountable A town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States.
  32. countable, uncountable An English habitational surname from Old English from any of these places.
  33. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname.

noun Nortons

  1. A motorcycle from the Norton Motorcycle Company, a British manufacturer.
  2. A book, especially an anthology, from the publisher Norton, especially if used as a textbook.

Thesaurus

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@misc{norton_2026,
  title = {Norton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/norton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}