Milton

(milt'n)

noun

a masculine name: dim. Milt, Miltie

Origin: after surname or place name Milton < OE Middel-tun (lit., Middletown) & OE Mylen-tun (lit., Mill town)

Milton, John 1608-74; Eng. poet

See Milton in American Heritage Dictionary 4

English poet and scholar who is best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), an account of humanity's fall from grace.

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