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 response in her village in Castlethorpe, Milton Keynes, has been huge.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

The fallout from Hurricane Milton, when insurers declined payments on claims from more than 95,000 Floridian homeowners, shows the main reasons companies say no.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

St. Francis 5, Cajon 2: Bobby Milton and Jake Smith each finished with two hits.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

Warsh has described himself as a student of Milton Friedman, the famed economist who said in 1963 that “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

A family of Tories in Milton wished to move into Boston and had written Colonel Smith about this move.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes