gloucester

1. 1.

   a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries

   Broadertown

   Part ofMassachusetts
2. 2.

   a city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn

   Broadercity

   Part ofEngland

Other forms of gloucester

plural

gloucesters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gloucester

What does gloucester mean?

gloucester means "a town in northeastern Massachusetts on Cape Ann to the northeast of Boston; the harbor has been a fishing center for centuries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gloucester?

gloucester has 2 syllables: glouce-ster. The stress falls on "glouce". In IPA it is /ˈɡlɔstɚ/.

Is gloucester a common word?

gloucester is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.