Felton

F4E1L1T1O1N1

proper noun

A village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5748).

Less commonScrabble 9

Meanings

proper nounFelton (countable and uncountable, plural Feltons)

plural Feltons

  1. A common placename:
    1. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5748).
    2. countableuncountableA village in Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU1800).
    3. countableuncountableA village in Winford parish, North Somerset district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST5265).
    4. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.

      Melissa Foley clears debris in her neighborhood as the San Lorenzo River rises in Felton on Saturday, January 14.

      2023 January 16, “California’s flooding, in pictures”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023
    5. countableuncountableA town in Kent County, Delaware, United States.
    6. countableuncountableA city in Clay County, Minnesota, United States.
    7. countableuncountableA borough of York County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  2. countableA habitational surname from Old English.

    Midway through a video interview with Tom Felton about his best-selling memoir, “Beyond the Wand,” the actor who played Draco Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” movies removes the blue-gray baseball cap he’d been wearing backward and begins to tousle his hair.

    2022 November 10, Elisabeth Egan, “Tom Felton Auditioned for ‘Harry Potter’ Without Reading the Books”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2023

Origin

  1. Old Englishfeld“field”
  2. EnglishFelton

From Old English feld (“field”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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APA

Felton. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Felton

MLA

“Felton.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Felton. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Felton,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Felton.

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