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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA town and civil parish in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU965775). · Ellipsis of Eton College, a prestigious public school for boys in Eton. · A town in Murray County, Georgia, United States. · A habitational surname from Old English.
From Old English *Ēatūn, from ea (“river”) + tun (“town”). See also the doublet Eaton.
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