Fullerton

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proper noun

A small village in Wherwell parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3739).

Less commonScrabble 12

Meanings

proper nounFullerton (countable and uncountable, plural Fullertons)

plural Fullertons

  1. countableuncountableA small village in Wherwell parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU3739).
  2. A place in the United States:
    1. countableuncountableA city in Orange County, California.

      On July 3, 2016, at 10:35pm, Sergeant Cleveland and Officer Henderson (“the Officers”) were on patrol near Fullerton, California looking for illegal street racing and “sideshows,” events where streets are blocked off for drivers to perform unlawful maneuvers like burnouts and donuts.

      2021 January, Kim McLane Wardlaw writing for the Ninth Circuit, Villanueva v. Cleveland, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2025, page 5
    2. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Nance County, Nebraska.
    3. countableuncountableA township in Nance County, Nebraska.
    4. countableuncountableA minor city in Dickey County, North Dakota.
    5. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Whitehall Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
  3. countableuncountableA locality in Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Old Englishfuglere“fowler, birdcatcher”
  2. EnglishFullerton

From Old English fuglere (“fowler, birdcatcher”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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APA

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

MLA

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Chicago

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