Worcester: Meaning and Definition of

Worces•ter

Pronunciation: (woos'tur), [key]
— n.
  1. 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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