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🏘️ A place name 🧑‍🦱 A surname
Seton

Seton

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A last name that comes from Scotland
  • proper noun
  • /ˈsiːtən/
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  • The first book Yehiel gave me to read was Wild Animals I Have Known, by Ernest Thompson Seton.

Examples

  • His embattled correspondence has now been ably edited by Edward S. Shapiro, a professor of history at Seton.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Proceeds benefit St. Elizabeth Seton's.

    Blog text (8)

  • Photo (black & white): Seton Rochwite, FPSA, PSA Progress medal recipient for his invention of the stereo camera, at the Stereo booth.

    Academic text (1996)

  • As Seton-Watson rightly emphasizes, a state is "a legal and political organization with the power to require obedience and loyalty from its citizens," while a nation is "a community of people whose members are bound together by a sense of solidarity, a common culture, a national consciousness."

    Academic text (1991)

  • The historian Hugh Seton-Watson wrote that nineteenth-century Russia failed to develop a merchant class: "There was no such bourgeoisie in Russia; even the merchants had little of the outlook of Western businessmen."

    Academic text (1993)

  • The famous naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton is known for his contributions to wildlife conservation.

  • Lucinda Seton came from a distinguished family that had lived in Scotland for generations.

  • Many notable figures in history bear the surname Seton, highlighting its Scottish heritage.

Surface Forms

Seton main

Etymology

Seton as a family name comes from that place name, because people who lived in or near the village took Seton as their surname, so the last name shows a family's link to the town.