Old English · proper noun
Caustone
- Part of speech
- proper noun, masculine
- Modern English
- caxtoncambridgeshire
Meaning
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Caxton (a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England)
Etymology
Recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book. Equivalent to a given name, possibly Old Norse *Kakkr, with genitive -s + tun (“town”).
Descendants
caxton
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