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Lester

Lester \Les"ter\, n. [Pg., prob. fr. Fr. l'est the east.] (Meteor.) A dry sirocco in the Madeira Islands.

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Lester, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 107
Housing Units (2000): 46
Land area (2000): 1.831797 sq. miles (4.744332 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.831797 sq. miles (4.744332 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42352
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 34.984304 N, 87.147909 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 35647
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Lester, AL
Lester
Lester, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 251
Housing Units (2000): 110
Land area (2000): 1.814608 sq. miles (4.699814 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.814608 sq. miles (4.699814 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44670
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.437475 N, 96.333322 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Lester, IA
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Lester, WV -- U.S. town in West Virginia
Population (2000): 322
Housing Units (2000): 168
Land area (2000): 0.495039 sq. miles (1.282145 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.495039 sq. miles (1.282145 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46468
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 37.734740 N, 81.300985 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 25865
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Headwords:
Lester, WV
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Lester

Lester is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname, first found in Cheshire, England. It originated from an original family living in Leicester, England and is derived from the concatenation of an Old English tribal name "Ligore" and the Old English word "ceaster" meaning "Roman Town or Walled City".

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Lester (disambiguation)

Lester is a surname and given name.

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Usage examples of "lester".

Lester had been trying to make him go home and then those fireballs had started and all pandemonium had broken loose.

In the silence that followed, the man I had called Lester Maddocks opened a drawer and got out a tube of mints.

Loughborough, or Lester Maddocks, or whatever his name might be, or was going to be, made a small, thoughtful sound sucking his peppermint.

Jaunty had said it, and Lester Maddocks, and now Signor Andreini disowning all responsibility for the actions of Lance Corporal Sweeting -was taking up the all too familiar melody.

Sergeant Blaker and another man called Lester Maddocks blew up the church.

Lester Freeman of the Miami Citizens Against Crime has come up with the nuttiest scheme of all: All 52 MCAC membersstaid bankers, lawyers, civic leaders, media honchosare to have their exalted urine screened for drugs this week.

I want you to think of something very smart, to make the Reverend Lester Gull and his phony preachers go away.

Uberlasch felt phlegmatically confident that he had nothing to apologize for in the bomb that had silenced Lester Boyd-although it was one of his less intricate contraptions, it had been entirely adequate for the job, and the conscientious craftsmanship that went into it was evidenced by the fact that it had admittedly hurt no extraneous characters whose injury might have beclouded the issue and unnecessarily increased the volume of public indignation.

Thanks go, too, to those who were there in as many different ways as there are names: Sabah Ashraf, Andy and Karen Barnett, Noel Bejarano, Marjorie Braman, Scott Brown, Sonesh Chainani, Dhruv Chopra, Elena DeCoste, Joe Geraci, Victor and Phyllis Grann, Katy Heiden, Stan Horowitz, the Joel family, David Kanuth, Clint Kisker, Richard Kromka, John Lester, Tobias Nanda, Nathaniel Pastor, Mike Personick, Joe and Spencer Rascoff, Jeff Sahrbeck, Jessica Salins, Joanna Sletten, Nick Simonds, Jon Stein, Emily Stone, Larry Wasserman, and Adam Wolfsdorf.

He'd had Lester Welch, his electronic chief, rig a buried web in Ruth's mattress, in case the baby instinctively contacte d her mother first.

Tom wasn't wearing his killsport armor, just nondescript athletic wear, and he wasn't with Lester and Tony, but it was him.

Huganay, followed by his two henchmen, Adams and the big bruiser, Lester.

I figured I'd forgotten to close down the computer, that you'd come home and seen the e-mail from Lester Silva about the money and then rushed off to Jack's office to confront him.

Lester Morris was a popular dance orchestra leader in and around Shopton.

Unknown December 1941 by Lester del Rey (1915- ) Phineas Theophilus Potts, who would have been the last to admit and the first to believe he was a godly man, creaked over in bed and stuck out one scrawny arm wrathfully.