Chester

American  

[ches-ter] / ˈtʃɛs tər /

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.

4. former name of Cheshire.

5. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “camp.”

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Chester British  

/ ˈtʃɛstə /

noun

1. Latin name: Deva.  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)

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Example Sentences

As Chester told me, “The system is so extensive, it’s impossible for the average person to opt out of” all the means of tracking afforded by TV-as-internet.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

Not long after the global pandemic shut down the college baseball season in 2020, Gardner-Webb coach Jim Chester received a message that seemed too good to be true.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Frank Chester, who was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, in April 1917, died at a nursing home in Malvern, Worcestershire, on Sunday, nine days after his birthday.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

Once Chester realized that this mysterious D-III flamethrower was, in fact, real, he reached out to Ed Santa, a longtime Colorado Rockies scout who covered Western Pennsylvania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Chester acts that way only when he has something devious in the back of his mind.

From "Bunnicula" by Deborah Howe and James Howe