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Lexington.

A number of places in the United States:

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name/ˈlɛk.sɪŋ.tən/
  1. A number of places in the United States: A small city, the county seat of Oglethorpe County, Georgia.

  2. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, consolidated with the county.

  3. A number of places in the United States: A town, the county seat of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

  4. A number of places in the United States: A township and village therein, in Sanilac County, Michigan.

  5. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Holmes County, Mississippi.

  6. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Lafayette County, Missouri.

  7. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Dawson County, Nebraska.

  8. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Davidson County, North Carolina.

  9. A number of places in the United States: A town, the county seat of Lexington County, South Carolina.

  10. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Henderson County, Tennessee.

  11. A number of places in the United States: An independent city, the county seat of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

  12. A number of places in the United States: A number of other townships, including in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Minnesota, Missouri, and Ohio, listed under Lexington Township.

  13. The battle of Lexington, one of the first battles in the American Revolutionary War, see Wikipedia:Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Where this word comes from

From Lexington, one of several predecessory forms of Laxton, A village in Laxton and Moorhouse parish, Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (see Laxton for further etymology). Lexington, Massachusetts was the original municipality of that name in the United States. The town in Massachusetts may have been named either (1) after the eponymous village in Nottinghamshire, England, once called by Lexington and sundry other forms thereof, and today truncated to Laxton, or (2) after Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton (whose title refers to the place in Nottinghamshire today known as Laxton). The other US cities and towns called Lexington, beginning with Lexington, Kentucky, were named after the town in Massachusetts, the site of an important Revolutionary War battle.

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