Worcester

[ woos-ter ]

noun

1. Joseph Emerson, 1784–1865, U.S. lexicographer.
2. a city in central Massachusetts.
3. a city in Hereford and Worcester, in W England, on the Severn: cathedral; Cromwell's defeat of the Scots 1651.
4. Worcestershire.

Worcester

/ ˈwʊstə /

noun

1. a cathedral city in W central England, the administrative centre of Worcestershire on the River Severn: scene of the battle (1651) in which Charles II was defeated by Cromwell. Pop: 94 029 (2001)
2. an industrial city in the US, in central Massachusetts: Clark University (1887). Pop: 175 706 (2003 est)
3. a town in S South Africa; centre of a fruit-growing region. Pop: 66 349 (2001)

Example Sentences

As for Jess Deyo and the Worcester nurses, many have been forced to move on.

From Time

Devantee Jones-Bernier was spending an afternoon at a friend’s apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts, when police banged on the door, looking for drugs.

From ProPublica

He received 36 scholarship offers and chose the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

From Washington Post

As a microbiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, in Worcester, I study those hitchhikers.

From Science News For Students

Silvia Corvera is a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

From Science News For Students

As Liu and Worcester note, Li brought tennis to an entire new population of fans, including Asians living around the globe.

From The Daily Beast

Religion, then, had almost nothing to do with my decision to attend the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

From The Daily Beast

I talked about Holy Cross, and the time I spent in Worcester helping welfare recipients navigate job training and social services.

From The Daily Beast

Tsarni contacted Peter Stefan, a funeral director in Worcester, Massachusetts, who was known to have handled Muslim burials.

From The Daily Beast

Gregory Weiner, assistant professor of political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.

From The Daily Beast

Gervase Babington died; bishop of Worcester and an eminent theological writer.

From Project Gutenberg

Even at the bottom of Worcester Street there was a bar across the road in 1818.

From Project Gutenberg

Our fine weather was very transient, for it was raining again when we reached Worcester.

From Project Gutenberg

Bishop Thomas of Worcester, who died the same year, expressed the same belief and the same hope.

From Project Gutenberg

Worcester's History has for many years occupied a high place among text books.

From Project Gutenberg