CHESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chester mean? 

• CHESTER (noun)
  The noun CHESTER has 1 sense:

1. a city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)

  Familiarity information: CHESTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city of southeastern Pennsylvania on the Delaware river (an industrial suburb of Philadelphia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Chester"):

Commodore John Barry Bridge (a cantilever bridge in Chester, Pennsylvania)

Holonyms ("Chester" is a part of...):

Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Now, Jo dear, the Chesters consider themselves very elegant people, so I want you to put on your best deportment.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The Prince can’t come, you know, Tregellis, but you might reserve a chair for the Earl of Chester.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By St. George! our life is short, and we should be merry while we may. May I never see Chester Bridge again, if she is not a right winsome lass!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

May Chester was rather jealous of Amy because the latter was a greater favorite than herself, and just at this time several trifling circumstances occurred to increase the feeling.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“Sir, we shall be proud to see the Earl of Chester there,” said my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here came the merchandise of all the fair countries which are watered by the Garonne and the Dordogne—the cloths of the south, the skins of Guienne, the wines of the Medoc—to be borne away to Hull, Exeter, Dartmouth, Bristol or Chester, in exchange for the wools and woolfels of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It shall be as you please, Mrs. Chester.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“His Royal Highness—that is, the Earl of Chester—would be glad to hear the end of your story, Buckhorse,” said my uncle, to whom the Prince had been whispering.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It's for the freedmen as well as the Chesters, and I think it very kind of them to let me share the labor and the fun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He expressed his pleasure at seeing so many good sportsmen under one roof, and acknowledged the honour which had been done both to his guests and himself by the presence there that night of the illustrious personage whom he should refer to as the Earl of Chester.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)