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Wiltshire
[ wilt-sheer, -sher ]
noun
- Also Wilts [] a county in S England. 1,345 sq. mi. (3,485 sq. km). : Salisbury.
- one of an English breed of white sheep having long, spiral horns.
- Also called Wiltshire cheese. a cylindrical, semihard cheese, moister and flakier than cheddar.
Wiltshire
/ -ˌʃɪə; ˈwɪltʃə /
noun
- a county of S England, consisting mainly of chalk uplands, with Salisbury Plain in the south and the Marlborough Downs in the north; prehistoric remains (at Stonehenge and Avebury); became a unitary authority in 2009: the geographical and ceremonial county includes Swindon unitary authority (established in 1997). Administrative centre: Trowbridge. Pop (excluding Swindon): 440 800 (2003 est). Area (excluding Swindon): 3481 sq km (1344 sq miles)
Example Sentences
The project was born out of concerns about the high-containment laboratories in Porton Down in Wiltshire, and Colindale in north London.
To make it work, 900 workers would relocate from Wiltshire to Essex to begin the transition.
Matthew Wiltshire started the men's charity the Cancer Club after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2015.
Matthew felt there wasn't a space "where men were openly talking about what it's like to go through cancer," his son, Oliver Wiltshire, says.
Traffic hotspots are expected on the M6 in Birmingham and near Blackpool, the south and western M25, the M5 at Bristol and the A303 in Wiltshire.
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