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winchester

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for winchester.

Editorial note

I've known people who commuted from as far as Winchester WV and Richmond VA for their DC job.

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Quick take

A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of winchester gathered in one view.

noun

A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.

noun

A local government district with borough status in Hampshire; in full, the City of Winchester.

noun

Any of the towns named after it, including:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for winchester.

noun

A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.

noun

A local government district with borough status in Hampshire; in full, the City of Winchester.

noun

Any of the towns named after it, including:

noun

A number of places in the United States:

Example sentences

1

I've known people who commuted from as far as Winchester WV and Richmond VA for their DC job.

2

It looks like sort of a Winchester Mystery House of endless cranking on product features with no real rhyme or reason or cohesion for any of it.

3

Also in Winchester quite a lot as from there.

4

The winchester house (just for it's random touristness).

5

These days I shoot a Model 70 Winchester in.308 (it and the Garand were both my grandfather's.) Since this is HN: the M-14/M1A is like Lisp, elegant, but accessible only to a few.

6

Project head Kenneth Haughton named it after the Winchester 30-30 rifle because it was planned to have two 30 MB spindles; however, the actual product shipped with two spindles for data modules of either 35 MB or 70 MB.

7

I'm actually looking for work right now but, because I no longer wish to work as a carpenter on the Winchester Mystery House (look it up) I'm having a hard time finding a job I can feel good about.

Quote examples

1

For anyone interested in the deeper story, The Simon Winchester book, "The Map that Changed the World", referred to in the article is a good read.

2

As an aside, Winchester's books on the development of the Oxford English Dictionary are wonderful, especially "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".

3

An RA60 is a hard disk unit, but not the sealed "Winchester" technology that IBM was promoting (and certainly won).

4

He was manager of "The Labs" and was working with manufacturing to introduce their first Winchester disk drive.

Proper noun examples

1

The name 'Winchester' and some derivatives are still common in some non-English speaking countries to generally refer to any hard disks (e.g.

2

Winchester still makes that 1882.44-40 rifle, albeit indeed as a nostalgic collector's item.

3

Winchester for realizing that all by himself on that boat, it's a hard realization that the best tourists are the ones that you can't see.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use winchester in a sentence?

I've known people who commuted from as far as Winchester WV and Richmond VA for their DC job.

What does winchester mean?

A city in and the county town of Hampshire, England.

What part of speech is winchester?

winchester is commonly used as noun.