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Taunton

American  
[tawn-tn, tahn-] / ˈtɔn tn, ˈtɑn- /

noun

  1. a city in SE Massachusetts.

  2. former name of Taunton Deane.


Taunton British  
/ ˈtɔːntən /

noun

  1. a market town in SW England, administrative centre of Somerset: scene of Judge Jeffreys' "Bloody Assize" (1685) after the Battle of Sedgemoor. Pop: 58 241 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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GWR's services, which run from Taunton, Bristol, Gloucester and other major stations across the West and South Wales, will come under the control of the government's new Great British Railways organisation.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

A pre-inquest hearing at Taunton Coroners' Court heard earlier that Tamzin, who had autism, had tried to escape from moving vehicles four times in the year before she died.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

Then, a perpetrator arrived on Dec. 12 to collect the lobster shipment at a Taunton, Mass., cold-storage center, run by a third party, where a Rexing customer was storing the lobster.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

Costco and the Taunton Police Department didn’t respond to a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

I lodged last night in an inn named the Coach and Horses a little way outside the town of Taunton, Somerset.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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