Definition of Gloucestershire

1. Noun. A county in southwestern England in the lower Severn valley.

Generic synonyms: County
Group relationships: England

Definition of Gloucestershire

1. Proper noun. A west midland county of England bordered by the Severn estuary, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and Monmouthshire. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gloucestershire

Gloriosa superba
Glorious Revolution
Glory of Heaven
Glosa
Glossic
Glossina
Glossina morsitans
Glossina pallidipes
Glossina palpalis
Glossodia
Glossopsitta
Glossopsitta versicolor
Glossopteris
Gloster
Gloucester
Gloucestershire
Glover
Glover phenomenon
Gloxinia perennis
Gloxinia spesiosa
Glp
Glu
Gluck
Glucophage
Glucotrol
Gluge's corpuscles
Glx
Gly
Glyceria
Glyceria grandis

Literary usage of Gloucestershire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1911)
"(Gloucester: DM (Letter of TBL Baker, with comments of gloucestershire Chronicle] nt-p. ... SLO pv7(no.43) To the editor of the gloucestershire Chronicle. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"In many of the gloucestershire long ... and the question arises whether they came originally from gloucestershire through Wales, or from Brittany. 2. ..."

3. Guide to Printed Books and Manuscripts Relating to English and Foreign by Gatfield, George (1892)
"The Visitation of gloucestershire, bv T May, G. King, and H. Dethick, ... Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of gloucestershire. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 1042, f. ..."

4. The Book of British Topography: A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical by John Parker Anderson (1881)
"A new history of gloucestershire, comprising the topography, antiquities, ... A Topographical description of gloucestershire, containing a compendious ..."

5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1910)
"(In: gloucestershire, Eng. gloucestershire parish registers. Marriages, v. i, pp. ... The register of Hanham and Old- land, gloucestershire. 1584-1681. ..."

6. The Diary of Master William Silence: A Study of Shakespeare & of Elizabethan by Dodgson Hamilton Madden (1897)
"In some notes to these pages I have collected various local indications which seem to show that the gloucestershire of Shakespeare was no mere geographical ..."

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