Manchester
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2.0
- proper noun
- /ˈmæntʃɪstər/
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Manchester
- Many tourists visit Manchester to explore its rich industrial history.
- Manchester University
- Manchester exhibition
- Manchester Art Treasures
She drove from London to Manchester the same day.
- She drove from London to Manchester the same day.
- Friedrich Engels comes to Manchester as a teenager.
- Yeah, that phone was bought in Manchester, in Woolworths.
- You can just say, Siri, what's the weather in Manchester on Saturday?
- Tickets are available now for Glasgow, Dublin, Oslo, Stockholm, London, Manchester, and Amsterdam.
- OK, My grandparents from Manchester, are they really just like wave a path?
- But I saw him shooting up in Manchester and.
- He belonged to the Royal Manchester Royal Exchange.
- Birmingham or Manchester, they haven't got an idea.
- You know, you've got Manchester, you know, it was just crazy.
- So we went for Nando's in Manchester at Gym Shark Lift LA weekend.
- So I'm in Saint Albans, Manchester Police come booming off man's door.
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She drove from London to Manchester the same day.
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We didn't know this, but today is Pride in Manchester, which is awesome.
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I passed six years in Manchester very good.
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Right, It is time to get to Manchester and time to get back to the UK.
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- She lived in Manchester.
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Yeah, that phone was bought in Manchester, in Woolworths.
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Cities like let's say, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow for Great Britain, right?
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You're not from Manchester, are you?
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Such a rainy day in Manchester and a very noisy one too.
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McCloy is a surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary at the University of Manchester in England.
Academic text (2002)
Compounds
A small short-haired dog with a black-and-tan coat bred in Manchester to hunt rats
Surface Forms
Etymology
Manchester comes from very old words: mam meaning 'breast', used for a round hill, and -chester meaning 'camp' or 'fort', as in Winchester. So the name originally meant the 'hill with a fort', which is why it became the city's name.