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Gloucestershire is a county in the west of England, next to Wales. Gloucester is the city; Gloucestershire is the wider land around it. In the south and east of the county lie the , a stretch of gentle hills and old stone villages that English people often call beautiful countryside. Like the city, the name is said with a quiet middle: GLOSS-tə-shə (or GLOSS-tə-sheer). On and maps you may also see the short form Glos.
格洛斯特郡
組成From Middle English Gloucestreschire: Gloucester + shire, an old English word for a county.
同家族的字
- Gloucesterthe city the county is named after
- Yorkshiresame -shire ending, 'county'
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gloucestershirename/ˈɡlɒstəʃə/
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A south western county of England bordered by the Severn estuary, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol and the Welsh county of Monmouthshire.
- Professor Anne Goodenough, an applied ecologist at the University of Gloucestershire who led the research, said: ‘It appears murmuration has become the norm – a general way for the starlings to stay safe from predators.’
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。