Lytton

[ lit-n ]

noun

1. Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton of Kneb·worth [neb, -wert], 1803–73, English novelist, dramatist, and politician.
2. his son Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl Lytton Owen Meredith, 1831–91, English statesman and poet.

Lytton

/ ˈlɪtən /

noun

1. Lytton, 1st Baron18031873MBritishWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistPOLITICS: statesman 1st Baron, title of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. 1803–73, British novelist, dramatist, and statesman, noted particularly for his historical romances

Example Sentences

The ticket was issued May 26, a Sunday morning, on the northbound 101 Freeway at Lytton Springs near the Sonoma Wine Country town of Healdsburg.

From Los Angeles Times

Farther south, the town of Lytton, British Columbia, on June 29 experienced Canada’s hottest recorded temperature, 119 degrees, and was largely destroyed by a wildfire the next day.

From Los Angeles Times

The Earl of Lytton cited a government pledge made in 1958 during a debate on the then new Park Lane traffic scheme.

From BBC

In a 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick lamented the overexposure of its most prominent members — the “exhaustion” of Virginia Woolf and “the draining” of the writer Lytton Strachey.

From New York Times

The TransCanada highway was closed near Chase, around 400 km northeast of Vancouver, and between Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, and the village of Lytton.

From Reuters