Chester

[ ches-ter ]

noun

1. a city in Cheshire, in northwest England: only English city with the Roman walls still intact.
2. a city in southeastern Pennsylvania.
3. Cheshire ( def 3 ).
4. former name of Cheshire ( def 1 ).
5. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “camp.”

Chester

/ ˈtʃɛstə /

noun

1. a city in NW England, administrative centre of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester, on the River Dee: intact surrounding walls; 16th- and 17th-century double-tier shops. Pop: 80 121 (2001) Latin nameDeva

Example Sentences

Bigger pumps and pipes are more expensive to build and harder to install, says Chester.

From MIT Technology Review

The owners of Rosies nightclub in Chester also apologized on Wednesday for hosting the event that celebrated the costumes.

From The Daily Beast

Collinge is also enrolled at the University of Chester where she studies sociology.

From The Daily Beast

Chester, the cricket overwhelmed by the city, came from Connecticut, like me.

From The Daily Beast

I lived in New York for 40 years, and I always felt a little like Chester—welcomed, inspired, enchanted, and stunned.

From The Daily Beast

Sam Chester, an American from Minneapolis who immigrated to Israel in 2009, came to Peres's 86th birthday party four years ago.

From The Daily Beast

Dorothy said this with a faint hope that her visitors might depart without taxing Mrs. Chester to provide them a meal.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a six-horse steam engine in use in Chester Cathedral (installed 1876).

From Project Gutenberg

Mis' Calvert, the old lady, she sent me to fetch this basket o' garden sass to Mis' Chester: an' this letter was for you, sir.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Chester also drew himself up on his crutches and swung across the floor and out of doors.

From Project Gutenberg

Whistling over his task, Mr. Chester soon evolved the following "Want Ad."

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