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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Milton

The school is owned by Milton Academy, an elite Massachusetts boarding and day school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Famed graphic designer Milton Glaser designed the venue to be “a journey to the promised land, an adventure in imagination, the pursuit of the unexpected.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The 31-year-old ran the London Marathon in 2022 in aid of the Milton Keynes-based Spinal Injuries Association, having undergone three spinal operations herself.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are examples of authors who hewed closely to writers who had come before them.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

Milton Frantig, the man who had thrown up on the lawn, had now been kept in isolation at Fairfax Hospital for several days.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston