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chester

French, noun/ʃɛs.tɛʁ/

chester is a French masculine noun meaning “cheshire (cheese)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fromage cru anglais, salé, à pâte ferme et de forme cylindrique, fabriqué à partir du lait de vache dans le…”.

What does chester mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecheshire (cheese)

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Fromage cru anglais, salé, à pâte ferme et de forme cylindrique, fabriqué à partir du lait de vache dans le comté de Chester.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of chester

  • chesters plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce chester?

  • /ʃɛs.tɛʁ/
  • \ʃɛs.tɛʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is chester in French?

chester appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).