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  Winchester

  noun

  a city in Hampshire, in S England: cathedral; capital of the early Wessex kingdom and of medieval England.
• winchester
  winchester

  noun

  (sometimes capital) a large cylindrical bottle with a narrow neck used for transporting chemicals. It contains about 2.5 litres

Winchester

American  

[win-ches-ter, -chuh-ster] / ˈwɪnˌtʃɛs tər, -tʃə stər /

noun

1. a city in Hampshire, in S England: cathedral; capital of the early Wessex kingdom and of medieval England.

2. a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

3. a city in N Virginia: Civil War battles 1862, 1864.

4. a city in E central Kentucky.

5. a town in NW Connecticut.

6. Winchester rifle.

7. Computers. Winchester disk.

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Winchester ¹ British  

/ ˈwɪntʃɪstə /

noun

1. a city in S England, administrative centre of Hampshire: a Romano-British town; Saxon capital of Wessex; 11th-century cathedral; site of Winchester College (1382), English public school. Pop: 41 420 (2001)

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winchester ² British  

/ ˈwɪntʃɪstə /

noun

1. (sometimes capital) a large cylindrical bottle with a narrow neck used for transporting chemicals. It contains about 2.5 litres

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Etymology

Origin of winchester

after Winchester, Hampshire

Example Sentences

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Gen. Sterling Winchester, with the California Department of Justice, declined to comment on the agreement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

Philip Jerome, of Winchester, Hampshire, appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court on his 49th birthday after pleading guilty to four breach charges.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

She talked to AFP from Winchester, near Southampton, where she was filming a new housing development.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

An inquest into Henry Nowak's death is due to be held in Winchester in September 2027.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

The oldest surviving manuscript of two-voice parallel organum in the world can be found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, as part of a book called the Winchester Troper.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

We were well armed, both having a good winchester and a couple of colts' pistols apiece.

From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Chas. A. Siringo

I returned to the tent for my winchester, hoping to get a shot at him, but it was of no use, he had gone away.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

Gents, thar's something mighty cogent about a winchester that a-way, an' I shore shoves on the brake with sech abandon I snaps the shank short off.'

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton

I happened to have my winchester near at hand.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

Havin' conclooded this yere salootatory, Miss Bark, givin' a coquettish flourish to her 68 winchester, goes trapsein' over to the O. K. Restauraw, leavin' us––as the story-writer puts it––glooed to the spot.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton