Gloucester Definition

glŏstər, glôstər
pronoun

A city in Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales.

Wiktionary

A type of cheese.

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Origin of Gloucester

  • From Latin Glēvum + Old English ceaster. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Glowecestre.

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Gloucester Sentence Examples

  • Gloucester is the chief centre of the trade.

  • This was St Bernard's College, founded by Chicheley under licence in mortmain in 1437 for Cistercian monks, on the model of Gloucester Hall and Durham College for the southern and northern Benedictines.

  • It was enclosed by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, and laid out by Charles II., and contains a fine avenue of Spanish chestnuts planted in his time.

  • Cranmer had been tried by a papal commission, over which Bishop Brooks of Gloucester presided, in September 1555.

  • Carteret discovered the Charlotte and Gloucester Islands, and Pitcairn Island on the 2nd of July 1767; revisited the Santa Cruz group, which was discovered by Mendafia and Quiros; and discovered the strait separating New Britain from New Ireland.

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