Gloucester

• Gloster

From Latin Glēvum + Old English ceaster. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Glowecestre.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒstə/
• (US) enPR: gläsʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑstɚ/

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Gloucester

1. A city and local government district in Gloucestershire, England, on the river Severn, near the border with Wales.
2. A city in Massachusetts.
3. A town in New South Wales, Australia.
4. A census-designated place in North Carolina.

• Gloucester County
• Gloucester Courthouse

Gloucester (countable and uncountable, plural Gloucesters)

1. A traditional semi-hard cheese from Gloucestershire.

• double Gloucester
• single Gloucester

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