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Rochester

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Noun

1. rochester

a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry

2. rochester

a town in southeast Minnesota

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rochester

see synonyms of rochester
noun
1. 
a town in SE England, in Medway unitary authority, Kent, on the River Medway. Pop: 27 123 (2001)
2. 
a city in NW New York State, on Lake Ontario. Pop: 215 093 (2003 est)
3. 
a city in the US, in Minnesota: site of the Mayo Clinic. Pop: 92 507 (2003 est)
noun
2nd Earl of, title of John Wilmot. 1647–80, English poet, wit, and libertine. His poems include satires, notably A Satire against Mankind (1675), love lyrics, and bawdy verse

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Rochester

see synonyms of rochester
2d Earl of(John Wilmot) 1647-80; Eng. poet
1. 
city & port in W N.Y., on Lake Ontario: pop. 220,000
2. 
city in SE Minn.: pop. 86,000
3. 
city in Kent, SE England: county district pop. 145,000

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rochester

see synonyms of rochester
1. A town of southeast England east-southeast of London. From an ancient Roman settlement, it grew into an important medieval commercial center.
2. A city of southeast Minnesota that is southeast of Minneapolis. The Mayo Clinic (founded in 1889) is located here.
3. A city of western New York east-northeast of Buffalo on the New York State Canal System near Lake Ontario. It was first settled c. 1812 and grew rapidly after the opening of the Erie Canal (1825).

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