Cheshire

[ chesh-er, -eer ]

noun

1. Formerly Chester. a county in NW England. 899 sq. mi. (2,328 sq. km).
2. a town in central Connecticut.
3. Also called Cheshire cheese, a hard cheese, yellowish, orange, or white in color, made of cow's milk and similar to cheddar.

Cheshire

¹

/ ˈtʃɛʃə; ˈtʃɛʃɪə /

noun

1. a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles) Ches

Cheshire

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/ ˈtʃɛʃə /

noun

1. Cheshire(Geoffrey) Leonard19171992MBritishPHILANTHROPY: philanthropistTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: airman Group Captain ( Geoffrey ) Leonard . 1917–92, British philanthropist: awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II; founded the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Disabled: married Sue, Baroness Ryder

Example Sentences

Cheshire County Jail in Keene, N.H., looks more like a small college campus or a tech start-up than a house of detention.

From The Daily Beast

Phone services at Cheshire are also outsourced to private companies.

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Cheshire is supposed to be a “short-term” facility, with 60 percent of its prisoners awaiting trial.

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But at Cheshire, prisoners rarely, if ever, leave their pod.

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In The Explorer Gene, science writer Tom Cheshire presents a fascinating cross-section of Piccard family history.

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A similar circumstance has occurred on the seashore at Hoy Lake, Cheshire, where several "fairy pipes" have been found.

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In Cheshire and Lancashire the word is in common use to this day, and invariably means starved for want of food.

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Lancashire and Cheshire had benefited much by Irish yarn, 4,000 hands being employed in weaving it at Manchester alone.

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In Cheshire, more time and attention is devoted to the perfect extraction of the whey than in almost any other district.

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One is irresistibly reminded of the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland, whose smile remained long after the cat had vanished.

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