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語源

Recorded as Stichiltone in the Domesday Book, the village's name derives from 古期英語 stigel (“stile”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”). The cheese was named after the village where it was originally sold.

発音

• IPA: /ˈstɪltən/
• 韻: -ɪltən

固有名詞

Stilton (countable and uncountable, plural Stiltons)

1. A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL1689).
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

統計情報

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Stilton is the 34909 most common surname in England, belonging to 97 individuals.

名詞

Stilton (countable and uncountable, plural Stiltons)

1. A type of blue-veined cheese made in England.
2. (slang, archaic) That which is needed or wanted; the very thing; the ticket.

   That's the Stilton!

参照

• (placename): Survey of English Place-Names
• (that which is needed or wanted): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Stilton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

アナグラム

• Tiltons