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creighton

n. 1 (surname) 2 A settlement in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 3 A city in Missouri 4 A city in Nebraska 5 A town in Saskatchewan

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Creighton, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
Population (2000): 1270
Housing Units (2000): 614
Land area (2000): 1.176139 sq. miles (3.046186 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.176139 sq. miles (3.046186 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11230
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.465112 N, 97.907191 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68729
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Creighton, NE
Creighton
Creighton, MO -- U.S. city in Missouri
Population (2000): 322
Housing Units (2000): 138
Land area (2000): 0.296315 sq. miles (0.767452 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.296315 sq. miles (0.767452 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17164
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.495498 N, 94.073148 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64739
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Creighton, MO
Creighton
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Creighton

Creighton is a name, derived from Crichton, Midlothian. It is also a placename, probably usually derived from bearers of the surname. It may refer to:

Usage examples of "creighton".

Later, there were toasts to the bride and groom, and then Aileen and Creighton took their leave.

She stared at Lucy Quinones and Dean Creighton without a care for politeness or explanation, the way a child stares.

Nobody was manning the communications board, which meant maybe Creighton had rerouted through the sci-deck or Savannah had cross-fed from life-support.

A revised version by Joseph Mileck and Horst Frenz, Americanizing and updating the Creighton translation, appears in Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover editions from 1963 on, and in the Bantam paperback editions from 1969.

Euclid came through another door from the dining room and the parlor beyond, where Hellbender ballplayers, from kids like me to grizzled codgers like Creighton Nutter, were listening to the news and debating the capture of Attu in the Aleutians.

They began by donning hardhats and safety boots, and riding down the mining elevator at Inco’s Creighton Mine.

It is written in the books of St Xavier's in Partibus that a report of Kim's progress was forwarded at the end of each term to Colonel Creighton and to Father Victor, from whose hands duly came the money for his schooling.

Ned Creighton, now the owner of the Mooncusser, a popular restaurant in Barnstable, repeated how very, very sorry he was for Cynthia.

Certainly that thought had crossed her mind as she’d run across the Laurentian campus, searching for Ponter, rushing to get him down to the bottom of the Creighton Mine before the reopened portal to his reality slammed shut again.

Cynthia Creighton was videotaping the news, back at the office, so Toni would be able to watch it again later, but she would now jot down any immediate thoughts.