Etymology

Plumpton

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Today it means: A western suburb of Sydney in the City of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Full definition →

Old English plūme
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  1. Old English · derived fromplūme“plum”
  2. English todayPlumpton

From Old English plūme (“plum”) + tūn (“settlement, town”). Doublet of Plympton.

Words from the same roots

Old Englishplūme all →

PlumsteadPlumleyPlumridge

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.