Merton
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English
Etymology
From Old English Merantūn.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Merton (countable and uncountable, plural Mertons)
- 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).
- A district in borough of Merton, in south-west Greater London (OS grid ref TQ2670).
- A London borough of Greater London.
- A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5717).
- An English habitational surname from Old English from the placenames.
- (Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Merton College, Oxford.