Preston

[pres-tuhn]

noun

1. a seaport in W Lancashire, in NW England.

2. a male given name.

Preston

/ ˈprɛstən /

noun

1. a city in NW England, administrative centre of Lancashire, on the River Ribble: developed as a weaving centre (17th–18th centuries); university (1992). Pop: 184 836 (2001)

Example Sentences

Avanti West Coast is advising customers not to travel on all routes between London and Manchester, Liverpool, Holyhead and Preston.

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It also matched the mark of Preston's 1889 side, and Liverpool in 1920, for most matches won in a row without conceding by an English club.

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Following loans to Ipswich, Millwall, MK Dons and Preston, the striker joined AZ Alkmaar permanently in the summer of 2024.

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Meanwhile, Brian Preston and Bo Hanson, the co-hosts of “The Money Guy Show” podcast, say the first step in people’s financial journeys should be buying insurance and saving enough to cover their highest insurance deductible.

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Officially, Kaufman is reviewing English historian Paul Preston’s “Architects of Terror,” a new study of the Franco regime’s vicious criminality, and along the way offers only a few passing references to the obvious contemporary resonance of that paranoid and brutal dictatorship.

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