Merton

American  

[mur-tn] / ˈmɜr tn /

noun

1. Robert King, 1910–2003, U.S. sociologist.

2. Thomas, 1915–68, U.S. poet and religious writer, born in France.

3. a borough of Greater London, England.

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Merton ¹ British  

/ ˈmɜːtən /

noun

1. a borough in SW Greater London. Pop: 191 400 (2003 est). Area: 38 sq km (15 sq miles)

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Merton ² British  

/ ˈmɜːtən /

noun

1. Thomas ( Feverel ). 1915–68, US writer, monk, and mystic; noted esp for his autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)

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Example Sentences

While discussing God, Ed would quote Michael Himes, “There is nothing we can do to make God not love us,” and the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, “Mercy, within Mercy, within Mercy.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

And then as I say in the book, I came home and turned on the TV and saw a documentary about Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, and monastic life and the priesthood.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

The easiest is the Merton share, which Bob Merton wrote about in 1969.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

The revolution accelerated in the 1960s, as researchers like Eugene Fama, Robert Merton and Myron Scholes were able to make use of the newly emerged data sets of market data.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

At number seven was another of Tom Bolles’s former freshmen, Merton Hatch.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown