Dictionary
Worces•ter
Pronunciation: (woos'tur), [key]—
n.
1. Joseph Emerson, 1784–1865, U.S. lexicographer.
2. a city in central Massachusetts. 161,799.
3. a city in Hereford and Worcester, in W England, on the Severn: cathedral; Cromwell's defeat of the Scots 1651. 74,300.
4. Worcestershire.
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