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.

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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