Milton

American  

[mil-tn] / ˈmɪl tn /

noun

1. John, 1608–74, English poet.

2. a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.

3. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

4. a male given name: a family name taken from a placename meaning “mill town.”

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Milton British  

/ ˈmɪltən /

noun

1. John. 1608–74, English poet. His early works, notably L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1632), the masque Comus (1634), and the elegy Lycidas (1637), show the influence of his Christian humanist education and his love of Italian Renaissance poetry. A staunch Parliamentarian and opponent of episcopacy, he published many pamphlets during the Civil War period, including Areopagitica (1644), which advocated freedom of the press. His greatest works were the epic poems Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), and Paradise Regained (1671) and the verse drama Samson Agonistes (1671)

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Example Sentences

The Post Your Pad campaign, by Milton Keynes-based World Vision UK, is encouraging people to make simple pads.

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Tunbridge Wells, Cambridge, North Hertfordshire and Milton Keynes will all take part in pilots which could eventually be rolled out across England.

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Australian broadcaster ABC News, external reported that the family of Paralympic skier Michael Milton are stranded in Doha after their flight to Italy was cancelled.

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The Labour MP for Milton Keynes Central, Emily Darlington, said the news was a shock and she had always known the centre as a "very safe place"

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The third edition of the event is going to take place in the Czech Republic in June, after being held in Milton Keynes for the past two years.

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