rochester

English - Turkish

Definition of rochester in English Turkish dictionary

family name

soyadı

Sadece soyadınızı büyük harflerle yazın. - Write only your family name in capitals.

Herhangi biri Tom'un soyadını biliyor mu? - Does anyone know Tom's family name?

family name

aile adı

Watanabe benim aile adımdır. - Watanabe is my family name.

Aile adınızın yazılımı nasıl? - What's the spelling of your family name?

English - English

Definition of rochester in English English dictionary: A city name, originally of the Rochester in Kent, England; A British surname; {i} family name; City (pop., 2000: 219,773) and port, northwestern New York, U.S. Founded in 1811 and incorporated as a city in 1834, it became a boomtown with construction of the Erie Canal and rail connections. It was the home of Margaret and Kate Fox, spiritualists who attracted world attention in the 1840s with their seances known as the "Rochester rappings." Frederick Douglass published his antislavery newspaper there in 1847, and the city was a terminus of the Underground Railroad. Susan B. Anthony lived there (1866-1906). In the 1890s George Eastman developed photographic equipment there; the city's manufacturing still includes cameras and photographic equipment. It is a cultural and educational centre and the home of the University of Rochester, the Eastman School of Music, and the Rochester Institute of Technology; a town in southeast Minnesota a city in western New York; a center of the photographic equipment industry
John Wilmot 2nd earl of Rochester: born April 10, 1647, Ditchley Manor House, Oxfordshire, Eng. died July 26, 1680, Woodstock, Oxfordshire English poet and wit. The most notorious debauchee of the Restoration court, Rochester was also its best poet and one of the most original and powerful English satirists. A Satyr Against Mankind (1675) is a scathing denunciation of rationalism and optimism that contrasts human perfidy with animal wisdom, and "History of Insipids" (1676) is a devastating attack on the government of Charles II. In 1680 he became ill, experienced a religious conversion, and recanted his past, ordering "all his profane and lewd writings" burned. His single dramatic work is Valentinian (1685)
Mrs Rochester: a character in the book Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Brontë. Mrs Rochester is mentally ill and kept locked in the attic (=a room under the roof) of the house so that no one can see her. She finally destroys the house by setting it on fire