winchester
/ˈwɪnt͡ʃɛstə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.
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Any of the towns named after it, including:
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Any of the towns named after it, including:
name
Any of the towns named after it, including:
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Any of the towns named after it, including:
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Any of the towns named after it, including:
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Any of the towns named after it, including:
Example Sentences
- "Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health."
- "H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked."
- "Almost simultaneously Jim Taylor and Kit Hunter shot at each other with Winchesters."
- "And besides, Winchesters of the nonremovable sort work fine—why bother complicating things with cartridges[…]"
Etymology
From Middle English Wynchester, Winchestre, from Old English Wintanċeaster, from Latin Venta Belgārum (literally “Venta of the Belgae”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Celtic *wentā (“town, place”), Proto-Indo-European *h₁wen- (“place (?)”) + Old English ċeaster, from Latin castra (“camp”). The bottle is named for the former customary units of the English city. The rifle is named after American businessman Oliver Winchester (1810–1880). The computer disk is named for the rifle.
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Deloraine-Winchester
Winchester bushel
Winchester disk
Winchester fives
Winchester football
Winchester gallon
Winchester game
Winchester goose