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Dorchester


Dor·ches·ter

D5354450 (dôr′chəs-tər, -chĕs-) A town of southern England west of Bournemouth. Traces of walls from an ancient Roman settlement are still visible in the town.

Dorchester

(ˈdɔːtʃɪstə) n (Placename) a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop: 16 171 (2001). Latin name: Durnovaria

Dor•ches•ter

(ˈdɔrˌtʃɛs tər, -tʃə stər)

n. a town in S Dorsetshire, in S England, on the Frome River: named Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novels. 14,049.

Dorchester


Dorchester,

Mass.: see BostonBoston,
city (1990 pop. 574,283), state capital and seat of Suffolk co., E Mass., on Boston Bay, an arm of Massachusetts Bay; inc. 1822. The city includes former neighboring towns—Roxbury, West Roxbury, Dorchester, Charlestown, Brighton, and Hyde Park—annexed in the
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Dorchester

(dôr`chĭstər), town (1991 pop. 13,734), county seat of Dorset, S central England. Dorchester is a busy agricultural market, especially for sheep and lambs. Printing, leatherworking, brewing, and the manufacture of agricultural machinery are important industries. Nearby is Maiden Castle, a fortification originally built in prehistoric times. In Roman times, Dorchester was called Durnovaria; Maumbury Rings, another pre-Roman site, was used by the Romans as an amphitheater. Baron Jeffreys of Wem held his Bloody Assizes in the town in 1685. It was also the site of the 1834 trial of the "Tolpuddle Martyrs," important in the history of British trade unionism. Thomas HardyHardy, Thomas,
1840–1928, English novelist and poet, b. near Dorchester, one of the great English writers of the 19th cent.

The son of a stonemason, he derived a love of music from his father and a devotion to literature from his mother.
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 lived in Dorchester, which is the "Casterbridge" of his Wessex novels.

Dorchester

a town in S England, administrative centre of Dorset: associated with Thomas Hardy, esp as the Casterbridge of his novels. Pop.: 16 171 (2001)
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