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# winchester

«winchester» in Mova's school dictionary: **a historic city in Hampshire in the south of England…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a Winchester, Winchesters) — a name

### meaning for a pupil

1) (a name) Winchester is a historic city in Hampshire in the south of England, once the capital of the Saxon kings, with a great cathedral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#m1)

2) A Winchester is a kind of repeating rifle made by the American Winchester company from the 1860s, famous in the Wild West. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#m2)

3) (a name) Winchester is also a surname and the name of towns in the USA and elsewhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons, Winchester was King Alfred's capital, and a famous round table said to be King Arthur's hangs there. Winchester College is an old English school. In Westerns, cowboys carry a Winchester rifle. Since it is a name, it usually takes a capital W.

### examples

- King Alfred's statue stands in Winchester. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#x1)
- Winchester Cathedral is one of the longest in Europe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#x2)
- The cowboy kept his Winchester by the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#x3)
- Winchester was once the capital of England. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#x4)
- We visited Winchester on our school trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#x5)
- The round table in Winchester Great Hall is very old. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#x6)

### note

A proper noun: write Winchester with a capital letter. Pronounced WIN-chess-ter. Guns are dangerous and are only for trained adults.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «winchester» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.