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別の表記

• (surname): Clapperton

語源

From 中期英語 Clopton, from 古期英語 *clopp (“rock, hill”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

発音

• (米国発音, 英国発音) IPA: /ˈklæptən/

固有名詞

Clapton (countable and uncountable, plural Claptons)

1. (uncountable) A placename:
   1. A suburban area of London in the borough of Hackney, Greater London (officially Upper Clapton and Lower Clapton), (OS grid ref TQ3486).
      • 2018, “Ace Feat. Smino & Saba”, in Room 25‎, performed by Noname:

        I'm roll on track, I'm in this field / I'm shot, you put me in my feels / She made it clap clap clap clappity-clap out in Clapton

   2. A hamlet in Hungerford parish, West Berkshire district, Berkshire, England (OS grid ref SU3870).
   3. A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1617).

      Synonym: Clapton-on-the-Hill

   4. A village in Ston Easton parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6453).
   5. A village in West Crewkerne parish, Somerset, England, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4106).
2. (countable) A habitational surname from Old English.

派生語

• Clapton in Gordano
• Clapton-on-the-Hill

統計情報

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Clapton is the 7212 most common surname in England, belonging to 912 individuals.

参照

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Clapton”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 341.
• Forebears