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Winchester

[ win-ches-ter, -chuh-ster ]

noun

  1. a city in Hampshire, in S England: cathedral; capital of the early Wessex kingdom and of medieval England.
  2. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
  3. a city in N Virginia: Civil War battles 1862, 1864.
  4. a city in E central Kentucky.
  5. a town in NW Connecticut.
  6. Computers. Winchester disk.


Winchester

1

/ ˈwɪntʃɪstə /

noun

  1. a city in S England, administrative centre of Hampshire: a Romano-British town; Saxon capital of Wessex; 11th-century cathedral; site of Winchester College (1382), English public school. Pop: 41 420 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


winchester

2

/ ˈwɪntʃɪstə /

noun

  1. sometimes capital a large cylindrical bottle with a narrow neck used for transporting chemicals. It contains about 2.5 litres
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Winchester1

after Winchester, Hampshire
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Example Sentences

She collaborated with a local Massachusetts store called Bespoke of Winchester to design her home kitchen in exchange for promoting the shop on Instagram to her 28,000 followers.

From Ozy

He said Winchester reached into his pocket, “pulled out his last dollar and a few pennies,” and handed them over.

Winchester had turned 40 two days before Memorial Day, and his mother, who now lives in Prince George’s County, had made him dinner.

His girlfriend of 13 years, Shamara Baylor, 35, said Winchester was best friends with their son, who turned 2 on May 17.

Available in Virginia at the Town Duck in Warrenton, Wine Mill in Winchester.

(Rioters) were building a barricade across Winchester Street and looking for material.

But what happens at Winchester University is a microcosm of the cruel world beyond its be-crested gates.

Alfred The Great, who was described by historians as “the most perfect character in history,” died in Winchester in 899 AD.

But Simon Winchester, the prolific British-born author who became an American citizen in 2011, tried to re-write it.

When historian Simon Winchester became American, he decided to set out to understand how the country developed.

From an historical point of view, no town in the Kingdom surpasses the proud old city of Winchester.

But we may not pause long to tell the story of even Winchester Cathedral in this hasty record of a motor flight through Britain.

There is much else in Winchester, though the cathedral and its associations may overshadow everything.

A day might well be given to the vicinity of Winchester, which teems with points of literary and historic interest.

Two weeks later he reached Winchester, after having made the dangerous crossing of the unbridged Shenandoah River.

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