Winchester

Winchester [win-ches-ter, -chuh-ster] Examples 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.

Wessex [wes-iks] noun

1. (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
2. the fictional setting of the novels of Thomas Hardy, principally identifiable with Dorsetshire.

Examples from the Web for winchester Contemporary Examples of winchester

(Rioters) were building a barricade across Winchester Street and looking for material.

Frat Culture Clashes With Riot Police at Keene, N.H., Pumpkin Festival

Melanie Plenda

October 19, 2014

But what happens at Winchester University is a microcosm of the cruel world beyond its be-crested gates.

‘Dear White People’ Is the Race Movie America Didn’t Know It Needed

Rawiya Kameir

October 17, 2014

Alfred The Great, who was described by historians as “the most perfect character in history,” died in Winchester in 899 AD.

Scientists Find Remains of Alfred The Great Or King Edward The Elder

Nico Hines

January 17, 2014

This 13th-century fresco of a lion was painted near Burgos in Spain, probably by an itinerant English artist from Winchester.

Caught by the Tale at the Cloisters

Blake Gopnik

March 15, 2013

We grew up skiing, horseback riding, hiking, and building fires at summer camp in our hometown of Winchester, Mass.

Sister of Former SEAL Glen Doherty Says He Always ‘Loved Adventure’

Abigail Pesta

September 20, 2012

Historical Examples of winchester

We visited him at Winchester, and found him sorely old and with failing wits.

The Armourer’s Prentices

Charlotte M. Yonge

That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair.

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

He was up in a corn-crib with a Winchester when they opened on him.

The Underdog

F. Hopkinson Smith

He glanced at Colonel Winchester and saw that his face had flushed.

The Rock of Chickamauga

Joseph A. Altsheler

But first he produced Woodville’s pistol and handed it to Colonel Winchester.

The Rock of Chickamauga

Joseph A. Altsheler

British Dictionary definitions for winchester winchester noun

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

Word Origin for winchester after Winchester, Hampshire Winchester 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)

Wessex 1 noun

1. an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in S and SW England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century a.d
2. 1. (in Thomas Hardy’s works) the southwestern counties of England, esp Dorset
   2. (as modifier)Wessex Poems

Wessex 2 noun

1. Earl of Wessex See Edward (def. 2)

Word Origin and History for winchester Winchester

city in Hampshire, capital of Wessex and later of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Old English Uintancæstir (c.730), from Ouenta (c.150), from Venta, a pre-Celtic name perhaps meaning “favored or chief place” + Old English ceaster “Roman town” (see Chester). The meaning “kind of breech-loading repeating rifle” is from the name of Oliver F. Winchester (1810-1880), U.S. manufacturer.