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Noun: Worcester  wûs-tu(r)
  1. United States lexicographer who was accused of plagiarism by Noah Webster (1784-1865)
    - Joseph Emerson Worcester
     
  2. An industrial and university city in central Massachusetts to the west of Boston
     
  3. A cathedral city in west central England on the River Severn

Type of: city, lexicographer, lexicologist, metropolis, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]

Part of: Bay State, England, MA, Mass., Massachusetts, Old Colony

Encyclopedia: Worcester, Pennsylvania