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Crichton
KREYE-tuhn
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A habitational surname from Scotland, taken from a village in Midlothian.
"Michael Crichton wrote several best-selling thriller novels."
Word Forms
Crichtons plural
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Etymology
From Welsh carreg ("rock") plus Old English tūn ("enclosure; settlement"), the source of the -ton ending.