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ROCHESTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in southeast Minnesota
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Rochester" is a part of...):
Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State (a midwestern state)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Rochester" is a part of...):
Empire State; N.Y.; New York; New York State; NY (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
With master—Mr. Rochester—he is just arrived.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Did you not know he was called Rochester?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Unused as I was to strangers, it was rather a trial to appear thus formally summoned in Mr. Rochester's presence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And yet it is said the Rochesters have been rather a violent than a quiet race in their time: perhaps, though, that is the reason they rest tranquilly in their graves now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Half reclined on a couch appeared Mr. Rochester, his foot supported by the cushion; he was looking at Adele and the dog: the fire shone full on his face.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Will you hand Mr. Rochester's cup?" said Mrs. Fairfax to me; "Adele might perhaps spill it."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Rochester must have been aware of the entrance of Mrs. Fairfax and myself; but it appeared he was not in the mood to notice us, for he never lifted his head as we approached.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester, as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
