Shackleton
name
name ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname from Old English. countable, uncountable
- 2 A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States. countable, uncountable
- 3 Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer. countable, uncountable
Synonyms
All synonymsEtymology
Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).