Gloucester

• Glocester, Gloster, Glos'ter (obsolete)

Inherited from Middle English Glowchestre, from Old English Glēawċeaster, Glēaweċeaster, Glēawan ċeaster, from Latin Glēvum + Old English ċeaster. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Glowecestre.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒs.tə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔs.tɚ/
• (US, Canada) enPR: gläsʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑ.stɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔs.tə/

Gloucester

2. A cathedral city and local government district of Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales.
4. A district and former municipality in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
6. A city in Massachusetts.
7. A township in Camden County, New Jersey.
8. A census-designated place in North Carolina.
9. A town in New South Wales, Australia.
10. A royal dukedom.

• Gloucester County
• Gloucester Courthouse

• Glocester

Gloucester (countable and uncountable, plural Gloucesters)

1. A traditional semi-hard cheese from Gloucestershire.
2. (countable) Short for Gloucester Old Spots

• double Gloucester
• single Gloucester

• 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN