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Milton
[ mil-tn ]
noun
- John, 1608–74, English poet.
- a town in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- a male given name: a family name taken from a placename meaning “mill town.”
Milton
/ ˈɪə /
noun
- MiltonJohn16081674MEnglishWRITING: poet John. 1608–74, English poet. His early works, notably L'Allegro and Il Penseroso (1632), the masque Comus (1634), and the elegy Lycidas (1637), show the influence of his Christian humanist education and his love of Italian Renaissance poetry. A staunch Parliamentarian and opponent of episcopacy, he published many pamphlets during the Civil War period, including Areopagitica (1644), which advocated freedom of the press. His greatest works were the epic poems Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), and Paradise Regained (1671) and the verse drama Samson Agonistes (1671)
Example Sentences
A man shot dead by police officers at Milton Keynes railway station has been named.
Officers were called to Milton Keynes Central at 12:55 BST on Tuesday to reports of a man carrying a firearm at the station on Elder Gate, before a shot was fired.
Her client, Milton Anderson, was Kitty Menendez’s brother, and has since died.
Shazna Muzammil, a councillor and Conservative group leader at Milton Keynes City Council, said she was "deeply shocked" by what had happened.
Based in San Francisco, the organization was founded by Patri Friedman, a Google software engineer and grandson of Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize–winning economist best known for his ideas about the limitations of government.
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