Associations to the word «Morton»

Wiktionary

MORTON, proper noun. Any of several places of that name (or Moreton) meaning "settlement near a moor or marsh".
MORTON, proper noun. An English and Scottish habitational surname​ from the placename.
MORTON, proper noun. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Dictionary definition

MORTON, noun. United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats