Definition of "Dayton"

(countable) A surname.  examples

(uncountable) A placename, from the surname:

1. A city, the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio; named for Jonathan Dayton, a Constitution signatory and statesman.  examples

2. A census-designated place in Lyon County, Nevada, United States; named for John Day, a local surveyor.  examples

3. A city, the county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee; named for the city in Ohio.  examples

4. A city in Texas.  examples

5. A census-designated place in New Jersey; named for Jonathan Dayton.  examples

6. A city in Kentucky; named for the city in Ohio.  examples

7. A city in Minnesota; named for founder Lyman Dayton.  examples

8. A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin; named for early settler Lyman Dayton.  examples

9. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia; named for Walter Warner Day, a cattle and wine pioneer in the area.  examples

10. A city in Oregon.  examples

11. A city, the county seat of Columbia County, Washington; named for Jesse Day.  examples

12. A town in Maine; named for Thomas Day, who submitted the petition for the area to become a town.  examples

13. A town in New York.  examples

14. A town in Indiana.  examples

15. A town in Virginia.  examples

16. A city in Iowa; named for the city in Ohio.  examples

17. A town in Wyoming; named for founder Joe Dayton Thorne.  examples

18. A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.  examples

19. A borough of Pennsylvania.  examples

20. A city in Idaho.  examples

21. A community in Nova Scotia.  examples

22. A census-designated place in Montana.  examples

23. A town in Alabama.  examples