ASHTON

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• ASHTON (noun)
  The noun ASHTON has 1 sense:

1. British choreographer (1906-1988)

  Familiarity information: ASHTON used as a noun is very rare.

• ASHTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British choreographer (1906-1988)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ashton; Sir Frederick Ashton

Instance hypernyms:

choreographer (someone who creates new dances)

 Context examples 

Amongst the books to which I am indebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century, I would particularly mention Ashton’s Dawn of the Nineteenth Century; Gronow’s “Reminiscences;” Fitzgerald’s “Life and Times of George IV.;” Jesse’s “Life of Brummell;” “Boxiana;” “Pugilistica;” Harper’s “Brighton Road;” Robinson’s “Last Earl of Barrymore” and “Old Q.;” Rice’s “History of the Turf;” Tristram’s “Coaching Days;” James’s “Naval History;” Clark Russell’s “Collingwood” and “Nelson.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)