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cawston

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English

Syllables
caw-ston
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A village and civil parish in Rugby borough, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP4773).

Countable; Uncountable

name

A rural community in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, British Columbia, Canada, named after rancher R. L. Cawston.

Countable; Uncountable

name

A habitational surname.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Recorded as Caustune in the Domesday Book, it probably derives from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Kalfr + -s- + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

Origin

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Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in People.

Inflected Forms

Cawstons (plural) Cason (alternative)

Questions

What does cawston mean?
A village and civil parish in Broadland district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TG136312).
Where does cawston come from?
It is traced to Old Norse.

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