Proper noun
A habitational surname from Old English.
An unincorporated community in Carter County, Kentucky.
An unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, Missouri.
A male given name transferred from the place name.
(uncountable) A number of places in England:
A hamlet in Denton and Caldecote parish, Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TL1587).
A village in Darlington borough, County Durham (OS grid ref NZ2118).
A village in Newhaven parish, Lewes district, East Sussex (OS grid ref TQ4502).
A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SJ9295).
A village in Denton with Wootton parish, Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2147).
A village and civil parish in South Kesteven district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SK8632).
A village and civil parish in South Norfolk district, Norfolk (OS grid ref TM2788).
A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire district, Northamptonshire (OS grid ref SP8357).
A hamlet and civil parish in Harrogate district, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1448).
A hamlet in Cuddesdon and Denton parish, South Oxfordshire district, Oxfordshire (OS grid ref SP5902).
(uncountable) A number of places in the United States:
A city in Jeff Davis County, Georgia.
A city in Doniphan County, Kansas
A town, the county seat of Caroline County, Maryland.
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Missouri.
A town in Fergus County, Montana.
A village in Lancaster County, Nebraska.
A town in Davidson County, North Carolina.
A city, the county seat of Denton County, Texas.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgMaybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger. John Waters
Abernethy and Beaty, The Folklore of Texan Cultures, Denton University of North Texas Press, 2000, p. 261. Another version of this story can be found in popular belief, mostly in Greece. Source: Internet
According to the Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton Police Chief Frank Dixon confirmed in a March 3 phone call that the four officers involved were Downing Douglas, Michael Hernandez, Latrice Pettaway and Ryan Spivey. Source: Internet
Chad Denton, The War on Sex: Western Repression from the Torah to Victoria. Source: Internet
Beyond ABC: Assessing the Well-Being of Children in North Texas is a biennial report that covers four areas regarding children across six counties: Dallas, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin, and Grayson. Source: Internet
Denton, C.S., Absolute Power, p.588 Standing about six feet from the gunmen and facing them, Alexandra watched the murder of her husband and two menservants before military commissar Peter Ermakov took aim at her. Source: Internet