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parton¹

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Coined by American physicist Richard Feynman in 1969, from part + -on.

noun partons

  1. dated, historical Any of the constituent particles making up a compound particle, e.g. the quarks and gluons which make up hadrons.

Parton²

Where it comes from

From Old English pere (“pear”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to pear + -ton.

proper noun Partons

  1. countable, uncountable A village and civil parish in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, previously in Copeland borough (OS grid ref NX9820). A road sign on the A595 at the Rosehill Road junction in Cumbria, showing the way to Whitehaven, Barrow and Parton, had "Dolly" added before Parton and "RIP" afterwards.
  2. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Thursby parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, previously in Allerdale borough (OS grid ref NY2750).
  3. countable, uncountable A hamlet (also called Great Parton) in Eardisley parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3148).
  4. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX6970).
  5. countable A habitational surname from Old English. Dolly Parton does not feel rock ’n’ roll enough for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Closest in meaning: antiparton, hadron, particle, preon, proton, quasiparton, meson, fundamental particle, protron, quarg, composite particle, quark, paraparticle, subconstituent, proteon, baryon

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@misc{parton_2026,
  title = {parton},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/parton},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}