GLOUCESTERSHIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gloucestershire mean? 

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

1. a county in southwestern England in the lower Severn valley

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A county in southwestern England in the lower Severn valley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Then, of the younger men, Sir Thomas Percy of Northumberland, Sir Thomas Wake of Yorkshire, and Sir William Beauchamp of Gloucestershire, were finally selected to uphold the honor of England.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Can you, in short, be prevailed on to quit this scene of public triumph and oblige your friend Eleanor with your company in Gloucestershire?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Did she tell you what part of Gloucestershire they come from?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In this distress, the intended departure of the Tilney family became her chief consolation; their journey into Gloucestershire was to take place within a few days, and Captain Tilney's removal would at least restore peace to every heart but his own.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr. and Mrs. Morland, relying on the discretion of the friends to whom they had already entrusted their daughter, felt no doubt of the propriety of an acquaintance which had been formed under their eye, and sent therefore by return of post their ready consent to her visit in Gloucestershire.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

How proper Mr. Tilney might be as a dreamer or a lover had not yet perhaps entered Mr. Allen's head, but that he was not objectionable as a common acquaintance for his young charge he was on inquiry satisfied; for he had early in the evening taken pains to know who her partner was, and had been assured of Mr. Tilney's being a clergyman, and of a very respectable family in Gloucestershire.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)