TEWKESBURY

Meaning of TEWKESBURY in English

/toohks"ber'ee, -beuh ree, -bree, tyoohks"-/ , n.

a town in N Gloucestershire, in W England: final defeat of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses 1471. 79,500.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

TEWKESBURY — County: Gloucestershire Post Code: GL20
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TEWKESBURY — geographical name town SW central England in Gloucestershire on Avon & Severn rivers population 9554
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
TEWKESBURY — geographical name town SW central England in Gloucestershire on Avon & Severn rivers population 9554
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TEWKESBURY — town (parish), Tewkesbury borough, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, England, at the confluence of the Severn and Warwickshire Avon …
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TEWKESBURY — Tewkesbury BrE AmE ˈtjuːks b ə r‿i ⇨ˈtʃuːks- AmE \ ˈtuːks ˌber i ˈtjuːks- —but locally -b ə r‿i in …
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TEWKESBURY — Pronunciation: ' tüks- ˌ ber- ē , ' tyüks-, ' tu ̇ ks-, -b( ə -)r ē Function: geographical name …
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TEWKESBURY, BATTLE OF — (May 4, 1471), in the English Wars of the Roses, the Yorkist king Edward IV's final victory over his Lancastrian …
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AVON — I. biographical name Earl of, II. geographical name river 96 miles (154 kilometers ) central England rising in Northamptonshire & …
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AVON — I. biographical name Earl of — see Anthony Eden II. ˈā-vən, ˈa-, US also ˈā-ˌvän geographical name 1. river 96 …
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WORCESTERSHIRE — administrative and historic county of England, located in the West Midlands region. The administrative county of Worcestershire comprises six districts: …
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WINCHCOMBE — village (parish), Tewkesbury borough, administrative and historic county of Gloucestershire, England, on the River Isbourne, near the Cotswolds. The site …
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TYRRELL, SIR JAMES — died 1502, London English soldier and royal official alleged by the 16th-century Humanist Sir Thomas More to have murdered the …
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TELFORD, THOMAS — born Aug. 9, 1757, near Westerkirk, Dumfries, Scot. died Sept. 2, 1834, London, Eng. versatile Scottish civil engineer whose crowning …
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SOMERSET, HENRY BEAUFORT, 2ND DUKE OF, 2ND EARL OF DORSET — born 1436 died May 15, 1464, Hexham, Northumberland, Eng. leading Lancastrian in the English Wars of the Roses. He was …
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SEVERN, RIVER — Welsh Hafren, Britain's longest river from source to tidal waters (about 180 miles ). The Severn rises near the River …
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ROSES, WARS OF THE — (145585), in English history, the series of dynastic civil wars whose violence and civil strife preceded the strong government of …
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RIVERS, ANTHONY WOODVILLE, 2ND EARL, BARON RIVERS — born c. 1440 died June 25, 1483 Woodville also spelled Wydeville, Wydville, or Wydevill English noble, a leading supporter of …
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NORMAN STYLE — Romanesque architecture that developed in Normandy and England between the 11th and 12th century and during the general adoption of …
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MARGARET OF ANJOU — later Queen Margaret daughter of Reignier, duke of Anjou and titular king of Naples, later the wife of King Henry …
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LLANTWIT MAJOR — Welsh Llanilltud Fawr town, Vale of Glamorgan county, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales. Prehistoric and Roman remains have been …
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HENRY VI, PART 3 — chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1589-92 in a two-part chronicle with Henry VI, Part …
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HENRY VI — king of England in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI, Part 3. Henry is …
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GREEN, HENRY — born Oct. 29, 1905, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, Eng. died Dec. 13, 1973, London pseudonym of Henry Vincent Yorke novelist and …
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE — administrative, geographic, and historic county of southwestern England. It lies at the head of the River Severn estuary on the …
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GLOUCESTER, RICHARD DE CLARE, 7TH EARL OF, 8TH EARL ... — born Aug. 4, 1222 died July 15, 1262, Eschemerfield, near Canterbury, Kent, Eng. the most powerful English noble of his …
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FORTESCUE, SIR JOHN — born c. 1385, , Norris, Somerset, Eng. died c. 1479, , Ebrington, Gloucestershire jurist, notable for a legal treatise, De …
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BEDFORD, JASPER TUDOR, DUKE OF, EARL OF PEMBROKE — born c. 1430 died Dec. 21/26, 1495 byname Jasper Of Hatfield leader of the Lancastrians in Wales, uncle and guardian …
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BARNET, BATTLE OF — (April 14, 1471), in the English Wars of the Roses, a momentous victory for the Yorkist king Edward IV over …
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WINNING — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES be on a winning/losing streak ▪ Celtic are on a six-game winning streak. confident of …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WATERWAY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE inland ▪ These multiplied especially along the routes and inland waterways of the region. …
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UPHOLD — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a court upholds sth (= says that an earlier decision was right ) ▪ It …
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SUE — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sued for slander ▪ He is being sued for slander . sued...for libel ▪ Holt …
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