Bruton

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proper noun

A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, on the River Brue, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST6834).

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, England, on the River Brue, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST6834).

    People attending the Big Brue in the town of Bruton next weekend will be asked to take part in tests before and after to try to discover if what they have listened to has made them more open, optimistic, empathetic and tolerant of people with views they do not agree with.

    2026 September 14, Steven Morris, “Somerset ‘festival of ideas’ to measure whether its talks change people’s outlook”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
  3. An English surname originating as an occupation.

Origin

From Brue (river) + -ton.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

Bruton. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bruton

MLA

“Bruton.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bruton. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bruton,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bruton.

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