ROCHESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rochester mean? 

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

1. a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry

2. a town in southeast Minnesota

  Familiarity information: ROCHESTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCHESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry

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

Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in southeast Minnesota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State (a midwestern state)

 Context examples 

Ah! cried she, in French, you speak my language as well as Mr. Rochester does: I can talk to you as I can to him, and so can Sophie.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The research base for NCCTG is located at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

(North Central Cancer Treatment Group, NCI Thesaurus)

A team led by Dr. Patricia White of the University of Rochester previously showed that a protein called Forkhead Box O3 (FOXO3) is expressed in both inner and outer hair cells.

(Protein involved in hearing loss recovery, NIH)

I see myself, as evening closes in, coming over the bridge at Rochester, footsore and tired, and eating bread that I had bought for supper.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A research team led by James L. Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota found that injecting even a small number of senescent cells into young, healthy mice causes damage that can result in physical dysfunction.

(Senolytic drugs reverse damage caused by senescent cells in mice, National Institutes of Health)

Biologists Jennifer Brisson of the University of Rochester and Benjamin Parker of the University of Tennessee studied pea aphids and uncovered genes that influence whether aphids produce wingless or winged offspring in response to their environment.

(Virus genes help determine if pea aphids get wings, National Science Foundation)

After breakfast, Adele and I withdrew to the library, which room, it appears, Mr. Rochester had directed should be used as the schoolroom.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Rochester lay down on a sofa in a pretty room called the salon, and Sophie and I had little beds in another place.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yes, you had better: I always dress for the evening when Mr. Rochester is here.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)