Word info

Lanchester

Speech parts

1. Lanchester - Noun

2. Lanchester - Proper noun

Meaning

A surname.

A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ1647).

Lanchester (plural Lanchesters)

A motor car or armoured car manufactured by the Lanchester Motor Company, founded by the Lanchester brothers, until production ended in 1954.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Celebrated novelist John Lanchester (“an elegant and wonderfully witty writer”—) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time. Source: Internet

In Bride of Frankenstein, all is prelude to the unwrapping of Elsa Lanchester, the revelation of the true Bride, the one that the movie's really named after. Source: Internet

The long shifts of mine clearance work were also interspersed with travels to places such as the Seychelles where the seamen were part of a landing party that was sent ashore armed with Lanchester submachine guns. Source: Internet

However, the Lanchester proved to be difficult and expensive to manufacture. Source: Internet

Lanchester determined that the power of such a force is proportional not to the number of units it has, but to the square of the number of units. Source: Internet

The first new product was a version of the Daimler Light Twenty or 16/20 and called Lanchester 15/18. Source: Internet

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