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# winchester

noun (a Winchester, Winchesters) — a name

«winchester» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «winchester» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/winchester/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«winchester» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/winchester.html) on Mova free.