WINCHESTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Winchester mean? 

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

1. a city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire

2. a shoulder rifle

  Familiarity information: WINCHESTER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINCHESTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southern England; administrative center of Hampshire

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 "Winchester"):

Winchester College (the oldest English public school; located in Winchester)

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

Hampshire (a county of southern England on the English Channel)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A shoulder rifle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("Winchester" is a kind of...):

rifle (a shoulder firearm with a long barrel and a rifled bore)

Domain usage:

trademark (a formally registered symbol identifying the manufacturer or distributor of a product)

 Context examples 

“It is due at Winchester at 11:30.”

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

I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was only last Lammastide, sir knight, that I was left for dead near Reading as I journeyed to Winchester fair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A historical British unit of dry volume equal to 4 dry quarts, or 1/8 of a US bushel (Winchester bushel), or 268.8025 cubic inches, or 4404.88377086 milliliters.

(Gallon Historical, NCI Thesaurus)

Four days later Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester to see the race for the Wessex Cup.

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

No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away.

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

That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They lashed the horses which sprang forward; but the four men raised their Winchester rifles, and in an unmistakable way commanded them to stop.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Had this lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I should never have had a fear for her.

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

But I have heard that your Company is to come with my forty Winchester rascals to Dax.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)