Girton

name, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL4262). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK8266). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    Ellipsis of Girton College, Cambridge. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
  4. 4
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable

Etymology

From Old English grēot (“gravel”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

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