Lancaster

[ lang-kuh-ster; lang-kas-ter ]

noun

1. the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York ( def 1 ).
2. a member of this family.
3. a city in Lancashire, in NW England.
4. a city in SE Pennsylvania.
5. a town in S California.
6. a city in central Ohio.
7. a town in N Texas.
8. a town in W New York.
9. Lancashire.

Lancaster

¹

/ ˈlæŋkəstə /

noun

1. a city in NW England, former county town of Lancashire, on the River Lune: castle (built on the site of a Roman camp); university (1964). Pop: 45 952 (2001)

Lancaster

²

/ ˈlæŋˌkæstə; ˈlæŋkəstə /

noun

1. the English royal house that reigned from 1399 to 1461

Example Sentences

He was just walking through the last suburban stretch of Lancaster, King said, before adding rapturously that he was “smelling manure for the first time.”

From Outside Online

Lancaster spent 11 years at Apple before taking a job as head of consumer products at Arris Composites in late 2019.

From Ars Technica

Last year, the queen of brain organoids, Lancaster, chopped up mature mini-brains into slices, which were then linked to muscle tissue through a cultured spinal cord.

From Singularity Hub 

He’s a theoretical physicist at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.

From Science News For Students

Residents hoping to get a coronavirus test in the Lancaster area had to travel at least seven miles to the nearest drive-thru testing center until recently, when a nearby Walmart Supercenter opened up a drive-thru site.

From FiveThirtyEight

Take 17-year-old Sierra Landry, from Lancaster, South Carolina.

From The Daily Beast

Never have two people been more in love than Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster, and now one of them is about to die.

From The Daily Beast

Joan Crawford had the inside track for Karen, though in 1952 she was six years older than Lancaster.

From The Daily Beast

Mrs. Lancaster: “I don't think so, but I could check with the kitchen.”

From The Daily Beast

MPs with numbers like 333 (Lancaster & Fleetwood), 214 (Sherwood) or 54 (N Warwickshire) tattooed on to their eyelids.

From The Daily Beast

The approach of the royal troops decided the insurgents to retire towards the Scots, to Lancaster's castle of Dunstanburgh.

From Project Gutenberg

When we came to Lancaster we were glad to stop, although our day's journey had covered only sixty miles.

From Project Gutenberg

A style of architecture closely resembling that of Lancaster-road Congregational Chapel has been followed in its construction.

From Project Gutenberg

Public charities, such as the Infirmary and the Lancaster School received annual subscriptions until the companies came to an end.

From Project Gutenberg

The church they respect is situated at the northern end of Preston, near the junction of Moor-lane and Lancaster-road.

From Project Gutenberg