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manchester
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What does manchester mean?
noun
- Household linen, especially as a category of goods in a store.
proper noun
- A major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England.
- Greater Manchester, the metropolitan county containing Manchester and surrounding towns.
More meanings (37)
proper noun
- A parish of Jamaica.
- A town in Bolivia.
- A small community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A settlement in Suriname.
- A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California.
- A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
- A city in Meriwether County and Talbot County, Georgia.
- A village in Scott County, Illinois.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Dearborn County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana.
- A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Iowa.
- A tiny city in Dickinson County, Kansas.
- A home rule city, the county seat of Clay County, Kentucky.
- A town in Kennebec County, Maine.
- A small incorporated town in Carroll County, Maryland.
- A town in Essex County, Massachusetts, in full Manchester-by-the-Sea.
- A village in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
- A tiny city in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
- A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.
- The largest city in New Hampshire, United States and one of the two county seats of Hillsborough County.
- A town and village in Ontario County, New York.
- A village in Adams County, Ohio.
- A town in Grant County, Oklahoma.
- A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.
- A neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- A ghost town and former unincorporated community in Kingsbury County, South Dakota.
- A city, the county seat of Coffee County, Tennessee.
- A community in southeastern Houston, Texas.
- A town in Vermont, United States and one of the two shire towns of Bennington County.
- A former independent city in Chesterfield County, Virginia, now part of the city of Richmond.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kitsap County, Washington.
- A town and unincorporated community in Green Lake County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Manchester Township.
- A type of twin-engined British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Second World War, the forerunner to the Lancaster.
- An English and Scottish surname.
noun
- (obsolete) A type of cotton fabric, or a piece of clothing made from such fabric.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmænt͡ʃɛstɚ/
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See this word in context.
Accordingly he went from Hull to Manchester, and was present in court during the two days that the trial lasted.
Before many months, however, he too met with a balloonist's death, being dashed against some stone walls when ascending near Manchester.
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Like the economists of the Manchester school, Marx failed to recognize the interplay of human instincts in the world of industry.
Having obtained letters of introduction to persons in Manchester, he found no difficulty in getting a situation in a large manufacturing house there.
His stay amidst the smoke and bustle of Manchester, though in striking contrast to his life in Genoa, was on the whole agreeable.