Meanings
proper nounFaxon (countable and uncountable, plural Faxons)
plural Faxons
- countableuncountableA surname.
Faxon's obvious course was to struggle through the drifts to the village, and there rout out a sleigh to convey him to Weymore; but what if, on his arrival at Mrs. Culme's, no one remembered to ask him what this devotion to duty had cost?
1916, Edith Wharton, The Triumph of Night - countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States.
- countableuncountableA town in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States.
- countableuncountableA census-designated place in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Origin
Unexplained.
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APA
Faxon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Faxon
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