"Merton" meaning in English

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Proper name

IPA: /mɜːtən/ [UK] Forms: Mertons [plural]
Etymology: From Old English Merantūn. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|ang|Merantūn}} Old English Merantūn Head templates: {{en-prop|~|s}} Merton (countable and uncountable, plural Mertons)
  1. Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
    A village and civil parish in Torridge district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5212).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Civil parishes of Devon, England, Places in Devon, England, Places in England, Villages in Devon, England, Villages in England
    Sense id: en-Merton-en-name-ivtdN-dc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 5 5 34 18 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 6 6 36 13 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 6 6 37 13 2
  2. Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
    A district in borough of Merton, in south-west Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2670).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Places in England, Places in Greater London, England
    Sense id: en-Merton-en-name-22Vp0mBH Categories (other): Neighbourhoods in Greater London, England
  3. Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
    A London borough of Greater London.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Boroughs of Greater London, England, Districts of Greater London, England, Places in England, Places in Greater London, England
    Sense id: en-Merton-en-name-uOafExKq
  4. Any of several placenames in England from words meaning lake and settlement.
    A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5717).
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (place): Civil parishes of Oxfordshire, England, Places in England, Places in Oxfordshire, England, Villages in England, Villages in Oxfordshire, England
    Sense id: en-Merton-en-name-zkmcObb2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 5 5 34 18 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 6 6 36 13 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 6 6 37 13 2
  5. An English habitational surname from Old English from the placenames. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Merton-en-name-pbwbFHuG Categories (other): English surnames, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 5 5 34 18 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 36 6 6 36 13 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 6 6 37 13 2
  6. (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Merton College, Oxford. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable Alternative form of: Merton College, Oxford
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Merton Park, Mertonian

Inflected forms

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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.