Stilton

See also: stilton

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪltən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪltən

Proper noun

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.

Statistics

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

Noun

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!

Translations

blue-veined cheese made in England

• Dutch: stilton (nl)
• Finnish: stiltonjuusto
• French: stilton (fr) m
• Japanese: スティルトン (sutiruton)
• Polish: stilton m
• Swedish: stilton (sv) c

References

• (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 City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears

Anagrams

• Tiltons