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Cheshire
[ chesh-er, -eer ]
noun
- Formerly Chester. a county in NW England. 899 sq. mi. (2,328 sq. km).
- a town in central Connecticut.
- Also called Cheshire cheese, a hard cheese, yellowish, orange, or white in color, made of cow's milk and similar to cheddar.
Cheshire
1/ ˈtʃɛʃɪə; ˈʃɛʃə /
noun
- a former administrative county of NW England; administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Cheshire West and Chester, and Cheshire East: low-lying and undulating, bordering on the Pennines in the east; mainly agricultural: the geographic and ceremonial county includes Warrington and Halton, which became independent unitary authorities in 1998. Area 2077 sq km (802 sq miles) Ches
Cheshire
2/ ˈʃɛʃə /
noun
- Cheshire(Geoffrey) Leonard19171992MBritishPHILANTHROPY: philanthropistTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: airman Group Captain ( Geoffrey ) Leonard . 1917–92, British philanthropist: awarded the Victoria Cross in World War II; founded the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Disabled: married Sue, Baroness Ryder
Example Sentences
A by-election in Runcorn and Helsby will also decide who becomes the new MP for the constituency in Cheshire.
His trial heard he abused 24 boys as young as nine while a housemaster at a Cheshire boarding school and through involvement with scouts in the West Midlands between 1968 and 1995.
Some of the charges related to Burrows' time as a housemaster at Danesford School in Congleton, Cheshire, between 1969 and 1971.
Burrows became the starting point for a huge police investigation in the 1990s spanning Cheshire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester police and resulting in convictions of other men at homes in the region.
Cheshire Police also proactively looked into Burrows' time with the Scouts, and found victims in the West Midlands.
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