gloucester

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Definition of gloucester in English English dictionary: a type of cheese; a city in Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales; {i} seaport in southwestern England; seaport in Massachusetts (USA); a city in the west of England, on the River Severn. It has a famous cathedral (=an important church). ancient Glevum City and administrative district (pop., 2001: 109,888), administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, southwestern England. The county seat of Gloucestershire, it lies on the River Severn and is linked by ship canal to docks in the Severn estuary. It was founded as the Roman colony of Glevum in AD 96-98. An abbey was founded there in 681; the town later became the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Important economically even before the Norman Conquest (1066), it was incorporated in 1483 and continued to flourish as a trading centre. It has varied industries, including the manufacture of railway rolling stock and aircraft, and light and heavy engineering works; a city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries
double Gloucester: A smooth, firm, mild yellow cheese
double gloucester: a smooth firm mild orange-red cheese

gloucester

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Glouces·ter

glôstır

/ˈglôstər/ /ˈɡlɔːstɜr/

(biographical name.) From Latin Glēvum + Old English ceaster. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Glowecestre.

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