"Botten" meaning in English

See Botten in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /ˈbɒtən/ Forms: Bottens [plural]
Etymology: Various origins: * English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button. * English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word. Compare Botner. Etymology templates: {{dercat|en|fro}}, {{der|en|non|botn||valley bottom}} Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), {{der|en|no|-}} Norwegian Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Botten (plural Bottens)
  1. A surname.

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "botn",
        "4": "",
        "5": "valley bottom"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Various origins:\n* English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button.\n* English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word.\nCompare Botner.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Bottens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Botten (plural Bottens)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English surnames",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "id": "en-Botten-en-name-EMUC1F3L",
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɒtən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Botten"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "dercat"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "non",
        "3": "botn",
        "4": "",
        "5": "valley bottom"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "no",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Various origins:\n* English metonymic occupational surname for a maker or seller of buttons, variant of Button.\n* English topographic surname for someone who lived in a valley, from Old Norse botn (“valley bottom”), or a habitational surname from a place named with this word, like Botton, North Yorkshire. This sense also appears as a Norwegian surname, from the same Old Norse word.\nCompare Botner.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Bottens",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "Botten (plural Bottens)",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English surnames",
        "English surnames from Norwegian",
        "English surnames from Old French",
        "English surnames from Old Norse",
        "English terms derived from Old French",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A surname."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surname",
          "surname"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɒtən/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Botten"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Botten meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (e97c820 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.