# Exton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #86,260

## Definitions
1. A village in Woodbury parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX9886).
2. A village and civil parish in Winchester district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6121).
3. A village in Exton and Horn parish, Rutland, England (OS grid ref SK9211).
4. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref SS9233).
5. A rural settlement near Deloraine, Tasmania, Australia.
6. A census-designated place in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
7. A surname.

## Etymology
# The villages in Devon and Somerset, England: from Old English Ex (“River Exe”) + tūn (“village”), 'the farm or village by the river Exe'.
# The village in Hampshire, England: from Old English Ēastseaxe (“East Saxons”), genitive plural, Ēastseaxna + tūn (“estate”), 'the settlement or estate of the East Saxons'.
# The village in Rutland, England: from Old English oxa (“ox”), genitive plural *exna + tūn, 'the ox farm'.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/exton