Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
Dorchester [dawr-ches-ter, -chuh-ster] Examples noun
- a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy’s novels.
Examples from the Web for dorchester Contemporary Examples of dorchester
Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.
Mark Wahlberg’s Pardon Plea: A Look Back At His Troubling, Violent, and Racist Rap Sheet
Marlow Stern
December 7, 2014
That day, Jesse Coleman, a 12-year-old black boy, and his older brother and sister were walking back to their home in Dorchester.
Mark Wahlberg’s Pardon Plea: A Look Back At His Troubling, Violent, and Racist Rap Sheet
Marlow Stern
December 7, 2014
We met at the Dorchester Hotel, for what I expected would be a question and answer interview.
Seth Lipsky
January 11, 2014
“Meet me for breakfast at the Dorchester Hotel next Thursday in London,” he said.
John M. Florescu
September 3, 2013
The Boston Police Department misreported an attack on the JFK Library in Dorchester.
Boston Marathon Bombing Media Errors Pile Up, as Does the Outrage
Michael Moynihan
April 18, 2013
Historical Examples of dorchester
With the exception of one at Dorchester, it is the largest in Britain.
P. H. Ditchfield
And soil might have been taken from the bottom of this Dorchester barrow which produced them.
R. W. Wright
It was indeed sixteen long years since I had left them at Dorchester.
The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence
William Lawrence
These were a line of fortifications facing Dorchester, made earlier in the siege.
Allen French
It seems generally to be considered that there was but one fort at Dorchester.
Allen French
British Dictionary definitions for dorchester Dorchester noun
- a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001)Latin name: Durnovaria (ˌdjʊənəʊˈveɪrɪə)
Word Origin and History for dorchester Dorchester
Old English Dorcanceaster, earlier Dornwaraceaster, from Latin Durnovaria, from Romano-British *duro- “walled town.”