Rochester

American  

[roch-es-ter, -uh-ster] / ˈrɒtʃ ɛs tər, -ə stər /

noun

1. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.

2. a city in W New York, on the Genesee River.

3. a town in SE Minnesota.

4. a city in N Kent, in SE England.

5. a city in SE New Hampshire.

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Rochester ¹ British  

/ ˈrɒtʃɪstə /

noun

1. 2nd Earl of , title of John Wilmot . 1647–80, English poet, wit, and libertine. His poems include satires, notably A Satire against Mankind (1675), love lyrics, and bawdy verse

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Rochester ² British  

/ ˈrɒtʃɪstə /

noun

1. a city in SE England, in Medway unitary authority, Kent, on the River Medway. Pop: 27 123 (2001)

2. a city in NW New York State, on Lake Ontario. Pop: 215 093 (2003 est)

3. a city in the US, in Minnesota: site of the Mayo Clinic. Pop: 92 507 (2003 est)

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Rochester Cultural  

1. City in western New York.

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Example Sentences

The Sewards were prolific letter writers who left behind some 350,000 pages of personal papers, now at the University of Rochester, where Mr. Slaughter is a professor emeritus of history.

From The Wall Street Journal

Esan was arrested near his home in Rochester about 25 minutes after the attack.

From BBC

Researchers at the University of Rochester now report that Earth's magnetic field may assist rather than prevent this transfer.

From Science Daily

Despite it being a logical deduction, it wasn’t a guarantee that banning phones would lead to better learning environments, said the paper’s co-author David Figlio, an economics professor at the University of Rochester.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Trained immunity is broad,” says David Topham, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

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