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

He moved here three years ago from Milton Keynes and works at an IT firm near Deansgate.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Everybody’s exploring intermodal,” said Milton Magos, vice president of Mexico operations at freight brokerage Traffix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Don’t conflate Fama and his merry band of economists at the business school with the Chicago School of Economics, practitioners in the university’s economics department led by another Nobel laureate, Milton Friedman.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

He was subsequently airlifted to Milton Keynes University Hospital, where he died on 28 May.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

The boy was named Miltiades after the great Athenian general, but would be known as Milton, after the great English poet.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides