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ˈmɪl tnmil·ton

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Milton, John Miltonnoun

    English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)

Wiktionary

  1. Miltonnoun

    derived from the surname.

  2. Miltonnoun

    Name of many towns in Canada and the US.

  3. Miltonnoun

    Brand name of sterilising compound for baby bottles

  4. Miltonnoun

    Milton Keynes - large new town in England, 90km north of London.

  5. Etymology: place name from mylen + tun ("mill settlement") and middel + tun ("middle settlement").

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  1. milton

    "Milton" is primarily a masculine given name of old English origin, meaning "mill town". It is also a common surname. Additionally, it is used as the name of various towns, cities, and geographical locations around the world. The name is most notably associated with the famous English poet John Milton, known for his epic poem "Paradise Lost".

Freebase

  1. Milton

    Milton is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and part of the Greater Boston area. The population was 27,003 at the 2010 census. Milton is the birthplace of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and architect Buckminster Fuller. Milton also has the highest percentage of residents per capita citing Irish heritage of any town in the United States; 38%. In 2007, 2009, and 2011, Money Magazine listed Milton 7th, 5th, and 2nd, respectively, on its annual list of the "Best Places to Live" in the United States. Milton is located between the Neponset River and the Blue Hills. It is bordered by Boston's Dorchester neighborhood and Mattapan neighborhood to the north and its Hyde Park neighborhood to the west, Quincy to the east and south, Randolph to the south and Canton to the west. It has water access to Boston Harbor through the Neponset Estuary.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MILTON

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Milton is ranked #1732 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Milton surname appeared 20,703 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname Milton.

    46.7% or 9,679 total occurrences were White.
    46.5% or 9,631 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 594 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.5% or 534 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 141 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.5% or 122 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Milton' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3573

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Milton in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Milton in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Milton in a Sentence

  1. Yvonne Craig:

    It was a wonderful experience, the crew liked one another, the cast liked one another. It doesn't happen often, and when it does, it's a joy to go to work every day. I got to work with people that I would never have the chance to work with. We had Ethel Merman, I would never have met Milton Berle, I got to work with Milton Berle, and Milton Berle was a delight.

  2. Brandon Messina:

    Trevor Milton strongly denies these false allegations, at no point in Trevor Milton life has Trevor Milton ever engaged in any inappropriate physical contact with anyone.

  3. Joshua Greene:

    Milton said, ‘You can live with my family,’ ’I’ll pay for all your needs. And you can go to acting school, dancing school — whatever you want to do. I’ll make sure you’re covered.’… For about a year, she was in hiding. Nobody knew where she was. She wanted control of script approval, directing approval, take over her career and not be the dumb blond t**s and a** girl. Which is exactly what she hated and wanted to get away from. Milton wanted to be a producer and direct films. It’s not a secret for a photographer wanting to do that.

  4. William Blake:

    To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but immediately to the understanding or reason?

  5. Henri Courpron:

    I do not expect Robert Milton to interfere with the CEO, but rather use Robert Milton insight and experience to support and encourage Munoz to re-evaluate the overall post-merger strategy for the airline as it appears to be lagging its peers on several fronts.

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