MANCHESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Manchester mean? 

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

1. largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river

2. a city in northwestern England (30 miles to the east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England

  Familiarity information: MANCHESTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANCHESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river

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 ("Manchester" is a part of...):

Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in northwestern England (30 miles to the east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England

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 (members of "Manchester"):

Mancunian (a native or resident of Manchester)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

Mancunian (of or relating to or characteristic of the English city of Manchester or its residents)

 Context examples 

Scientists from The University of Manchester have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science.

(Scientists Create Functioning Kidney Tissue, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

We emerged at last into a small road, lined with old, gloomy houses, which led us into Manchester Street, and so to Blandford Street.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Tenth was ordered to Manchester, and they could hardly expect me to go to a place like that.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Robot scientist Eve was developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Manchester, Aberystwyth, and Cambridge to automate – and hence speed up – the drug discovery process by automatically developing and testing hypotheses to explain observations, run experiments using laboratory robotics, interpret the results to amend their hypotheses, and then repeat the cycle, automating high-throughput hypothesis-led research.

(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)