HOUGHTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Houghton mean? 

• HOUGHTON (noun)
  The noun HOUGHTON has 2 senses:

1. United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)

2. a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula

  Familiarity information: HOUGHTON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUGHTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Oscar Houghton; Houghton

Instance hypernyms:

publisher (a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

point of entry; port of entry (a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise)

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Houghton" is a part of...):

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)