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. Winchester rifle.
7. Computers. Winchester disk.

winchester

¹

/ ˈwɪntʃɪstə /

noun

1. sometimes capital a large cylindrical bottle with a narrow neck used for transporting chemicals. It contains about 2.5 litres

Winchester

²

/ 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)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Winchester¹

after Winchester, Hampshire

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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

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