GLOUCESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gloucester mean? 

• GLOUCESTER (noun)
  The noun GLOUCESTER has 2 senses:

1. a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries

2. a city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn

  Familiarity information: GLOUCESTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOUCESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn

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)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Well, then, your man, Jim ’Arisen, fights Crab Wilson, of Gloucester, at Crawley Down to-morrow mornin’ for a stake.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Lestrade and Mycroft met us by appointment at the outside of Gloucester Road Station.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, If I go into a cheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment—at which I see Miss Murdstone secretly overjoyed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5, 1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“It’s a hundred to a tizzy on Gloucester!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last, shortly after nine o’clock, there arrived a messenger with a note: Am dining at Goldini’s Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It’s only in Bristol and Gloucester that you can get men to beat Bristol and Gloucester.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I began my operations at Gloucester Road Station, where a very helpful official walked with me along the track and allowed me to satisfy myself not only that the back-stair windows of Caulfield Gardens open on the line but the even more essential fact that, owing to the intersection of one of the larger railways, the Underground trains are frequently held motionless for some minutes at that very spot.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have a very good bit of stuff at thirteen stone down Gloucester way.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His cry was a signal, for, like a thunderclap, there came a hundred hoarse voices shouting together: “Fair play for Gloucester! Break the ring! Break the ring!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)