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

Sitting in his dorm room at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Benjamin Brundage was closing in on a mystery that had even seasoned internet investigators baffled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Nesbitt, who grew up near Rochester, N.Y., worked as a grave digger in high school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Scientists at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have now developed a new type of squeezed phonon laser that can precisely control these vibrations at the nanoscale.

From Science Daily • Mar. 31, 2026

This is when clinicians started to describe instances in which people who are metabolically healthy and obese as the “obesity paradox,” a concept that Russell, the physician in Rochester, describes as “bonkers.”

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

And was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes?

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë