Cherwell

British  

/ ˈtʃɑːwəl /

noun

1. 1st Viscount title of Frederick Alexander Lindemann (ˈlɪndəmən). 1886–1957, British physicist, born in Germany, noted for his research on heat capacity, aeronautics, and atomic physics. He was scientific adviser to Winston Churchill during World War II

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Example Sentences

This apparent idyll, just outside Bicester in Oxfordshire, has slowly taken shape ever since Cherwell District Council bought a former Ministry of Defence site in 2014.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2023

Cherwell Collective runs its surplus food bank at the village's Exeter Hall, with more than 3,000 people registered to come along and collect food when they need it.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2022

“We made fun of him in the paper” — that would be Cherwell, Oxford’s student-run weekly, where Kuper was a reporter — “all the while not realizing that we were helping to build his brand.”

From New York Times • May 14, 2022

In what turns out to be their final meeting, the detective duo drink beer beside the Cherwell at sunset, and Morse recites the AE Houseman poem that gives The Remorseful Day its characteristically punning title.

From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2018

Before long they crossed the Cherwell into the High Street.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli