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  • proper noun A suburb of Liverpool, England
  • proper noun A suburb of Bradford, England
  • proper noun A village in Illinois, United States
  • proper noun A city in Iowa, United States
  • proper noun A habitational surname.

Etymologies

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The name of the English location is possibly from Old English alor (alder) and -tun, or possibly it was named for Alfred the Great. It is in the Domesday Book as Alvertune.

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