caxton
/ˈkæk.stən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
name
A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3058).
Example Sentences
- "I recall vividly a bright summer morning, many years ago, when, in search of Caxtons, I entered the inner quadrangle of a certain wealthy College in one of our learned Universities."
- "This remarkable passion of the British nobility for editiones principes and Caxtons seems to have lasted but a couple of decades."
Etymology
From Middle English Caxton.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Caxton