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Horton
HAW-tuhn
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An English habitational surname, also the name of numerous villages in England and towns across the United States and Australia.
"Dr. Seuss wrote a beloved book about an elephant named Horton."
Word Forms
Hortons plural
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Etymology
From Old English horh ("mud, slime") plus tūn ("enclosure, settlement").