Manchester

A major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England.

Proper noun

  1. A major city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in northwestern England.
    • In Manchester and in Aldershot in Hampshire, asylum seeker accommodation was targeted by demonstrators carrying placards that read “deport them, don’t support them” and “no apartments for illegals”. - 2024 August 1,...
  2. A parish of Jamaica.
  3. A town in Bolivia.
  4. A small community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  5. A settlement in Suriname.
  6. Any of several towns and cities in the United States of America:

    1. A census-designated place in Mendocino County, California.

    2. A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.

    3. A city in Meriwether County and Talbot County, Georgia.

    4. A village in Scott County, Illinois.

    5. A township and census-designated place therein, in Dearborn County, Indiana.

    6. An unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, Indiana.

    7. A city, the county seat of Delaware County, Iowa.

    8. A tiny city in Dickinson County, Kansas.

    9. A home rule city, the county seat of Clay County, Kentucky.

    10. A town in Kennebec County, Maine.

    11. A small incorporated town in Carroll County, Maryland.

    12. A town in Essex County, Massachusetts, in full Manchester-by-the-Sea.

    13. A village in Washtenaw County, Michigan.

    14. A tiny city in Freeborn County, Minnesota.

    15. A city in St. Louis County, Missouri.

    16. The largest city in New Hampshire, United States and one of the two county seats of Hillsborough County.

    17. A town and village in Ontario County, New York.

    18. A village in Adams County, Ohio.

    19. A town in Grant County, Oklahoma.

    20. A borough in York County, Pennsylvania.

    21. A neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    22. A ghost town and former unincorporated community in Kingsbury County, South Dakota.

    23. A city, the county seat of Coffee County, Tennessee.

    24. A community in southeastern Houston, Texas.

    25. A town in Vermont, United States and one of the two shire towns of Bennington County.

    26. A former independent city in Chesterfield County, Virginia, now part of the city of Richmond.

    27. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kitsap County, Washington.

    28. A town and unincorporated community in Green Lake County, Wisconsin.

    29. A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.

    30. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Manchester Township.

  7. A type of twin-engined British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Second World War, the forerunner to the Lancaster.
  8. An English and Scottish surname.

Origin

From Old English Mameċeaster, from the original Brythonic name represented by Imperial Latin Mamucium (maybe from a word related to Proto-Brythonic *mamm (“mother; female animal; womb”), in reference to a breast-shaped hill) and Old English ċeaster (“Roman fort”), from Latin castra (“camp”).

Wikipedia

Manchester

Related

Mancunian

Derived

Greater Manchester Madchester Manchester-by-the-Sea Manchester Center Manchesterdom Manchester encoding Manchesterism Manchesterite Manchester Parish Manchester pudding Manchester Ship Canal Manchester Shitty Manchester Square Manchester Terrier West Manchester