Littleton

L1I1T1T1L1E1T1O1N1

proper noun

A village in County Tipperary, Ireland.

OriginOld English lȳtel →
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Meanings

proper nounLittleton (countable and uncountable, plural Littletons)

plural Littletons

  1. countableuncountableA village in County Tipperary, Ireland.
  2. countableuncountableA locality in the Lithgow council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A number of places in England:
    1. countableuncountableA village and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester borough, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ4466).
    2. countableuncountableA hamlet in Blandford St Mary parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST8904).
    3. countableuncountableA village in Littleton and Harestock parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4532).
    4. countableuncountableA hamlet in Chew Magna parish, Bath and North East Somerset council area, Somerset (OS grid ref ST5563).
    5. countableuncountableA hamlet in Compton Dundon parish, Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4930).
    6. countableuncountableA hamlet in Artington parish, Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9847).
    7. countableuncountableA village near Shepperton, Spelthorne borough, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ0768).
    8. countableuncountableA hamlet in Semington parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST9060).
  4. A number of places in the United States:
    1. countableuncountableA home rule municipality, the county seat of Arapahoe County, Colorado.

      In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library.

      2012 April 3, Laura Smith-Spark, “Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2021
    2. countableuncountableA village in Schuyler County, Illinois.
    3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Iowa.
    4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Clay County, Kentucky.
    5. countableuncountableA town in Aroostook County, Maine.
    6. countableuncountableA town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
    7. countableuncountableA town in Grafton County, New Hampshire.
    8. countableuncountableA town in Halifax County, North Carolina.
    9. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
  5. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

  1. Old Englishlȳtel“small, little”
  2. EnglishLittleton

From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to little + -ton. Doublet of Lyttelton.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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