Singleton

//ˈsɪŋ.ɡ(ə)l.tən// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a class offered only once within a school year.

    "a singleton class"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A placename:; A village and civil parish in Fylde borough, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD3838). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A placename:; A suburb in Great Chart with Singleton parish, Ashford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ9841). countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A placename:; A village and civil parish in Chichester district, West Sussex, England (OS grid ref SU8713). countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A placename:; A town and local government area (Singleton Council) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A placename:; An outer southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A habitational surname from Old English. countable, uncountable

    "[…] she busied herself in the front room, rustling about in Anne Kellaway’s box of buttony materials filled with rings of various sizes, chips of sheep horn for the Singletons, a ball of flax for shaping round buttons, bits of linen for covering them, both sharp and blunt needles, and several different colors and thicknesses of thread."

Noun
  1. 1
    A playing card that is the only one of its suit in a hand, especially at bridge.
  2. 2
    the playing card that is the only card in a suit held in a bridge hand as initially dealt wordnet
  3. 3
    A hand containing only one card of a certain suit.
  4. 4
    a set containing a single member wordnet
  5. 5
    A single object, especially one of a group.
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  1. 6
    a single object (as distinguished from a pair) wordnet
  2. 7
    A class that may not be instantiated more than once, i.e. that implements the singleton design pattern.
  3. 8
    A set with exactly one element.
  4. 9
    A child or animal that is born singly, not as a twin or other multiple birth.

    "singleton preterm birth"

  5. 10
    A person without a romantic partner.

    "The time draws near when pink and red creep insidiously into the periphery, jewelry retailers go into overdrive and drugstore aisles burst with cherubs for the one holiday of the year that separates the singletons from the significant-othered."

  6. 11
    A person without a dissociative identity.
  7. 12
    A single consonant, as opposed to a geminated consonant.

    "singleton sonorants"

  8. 13
    Synonym of blot.
  9. 14
    A class offered only once within a school year.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.

Etymology 2

From single + -ton, probably following the model of simpleton.

Etymology 3

From Middle English shyngel (“shingle”) + toun (“town”).

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