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amherst
/ˈæmɚst/
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What does amherst mean?
noun
- Ellipsis of Lady Amherst's pheasant.
proper noun
- An English surname.
- A census-designated place in Phillips County, Colorado.
More meanings (14)
proper noun
- A town in Hancock County, Maine.
- A town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
- A township in Fillmore County, Minnesota.
- A village in Buffalo County, Nebraska.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
- A town in Erie County, New York.
- A city and township in Lorain County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Marshall County, South Dakota.
- A minor city in Lamb County, Texas.
- A town, the county seat of Amherst County, Virginia.
- A town and village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A township municipality in Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A locality in the Shire of Central Goldfields, Victoria, Australia.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈæmɚst/
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If their army has not ammunition and spirit enough to fall again upon ours before Amherst comes up, all North America is ours!
In some natural species we may observe exactly the same correlation in the colours of these same feathers, as in the males of the splendid Gold and Amherst pheasants.
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In the graduating class of Amherst College of the present year, those not using tobacco have in weight gained 24 per cent.
This observation of the messenger was, it seems, well founded; for, when in England, I understood that Mr. Pitt gave it as one reason for removing this general, and sending Generals Amherst and Wolfe, that the minister never heard from him, and could not know what he was doing.
I am also about to write to the head of the Massachusetts Agricultural College, at Amherst, asking him to recommend a good, practical man with a nice, efficient, cheerful wife, who will take the entire care of our modest domain of seventeen acres, and who will be a man with the right personality to place over our boys.