ALL meanings of winchester
Win·ches·ter
W w - noun winchester (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester. 1
- noun winchester the fictional setting of the novels of Thomas Hardy, principally identifiable with Dorsetshire. 1
- noun winchester a city in S England, administrative centre of Hampshire: a Romano-British town; Saxon capital of Wessex; 11th-century cathedral; site of Winchester College (1382), English public school. Pop: 41 420 (2001) 0
- noun winchester a large cylindrical bottle with a narrow neck used for transporting chemicals. It contains about 2.5 litres 0
- noun winchester a type of repeating rifle with a tubular magazine set horizontally under the barrel 0
- noun winchester county seat of Hampshire, S England: site of 11th-14th cent. cathedral: county district pop. 96,000 0