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Chatham

[ chat-uh m ]

/ ˈtʃæt əm /

noun

1st Earl of. Pitt, William, 1st Earl of Chatham.

a city in N Kent, in SE England.

a city in SW Ontario, in S Canada, near Lake St. Clair.

Example sentences from the Web for chatham

The two leaders “are both stubborn in their own ways,” says Yossi Mekelberg, a Middle East scholar at Chatham House in London.

Why Israel Needs Turkey (and Turkey Needs Israel) |Mike Giglio |April 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Either way, look for every Democrat from Chatham to Pittsfield to take a look at the race.

If Kerry Goes to State, Who Will Succeed Him? The Guessing Begins |David Freedlander |December 15, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
“He has absolute commitment to consensus,” says Kerry Brown, a China specialist at the British think tank Chatham House.

China's Man of Mystery |Melinda Liu |January 17, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
He also owns a home in Chatham on Cape Cod, which is valued at around $3 million.

The Men Who Killed the Economy |Niall Stanage |November 19, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

Chatham had addressed him living, in verse, and peers sought for the honour of supporting the pall at his funeral.

Their Majesties' Servants (Volume 2 of 3) |John Doran
It was the kind of crowd that could only have been gathered from the three-cent lodging-houses in Chatham Street.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York |Lemuel Ely Quigg
I remember Chatham as a place of heat, intolerable dirt, and a bad sore throat.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider |W. H. L. Watson
When parliament rose in December Chatham went to Bath for the sake of his health.

The Political History of England - Vol. X. |William Hunt
Would it not be a worthy companion to the statues of Beckford and Chatham?

A Morning's Walk from London to Kew |Richard Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for chatham (1 of 2)

Chatham ¹

/ (ˈtʃætəm) /

noun

a town in SE England, in N Kent on the River Medway: formerly royal naval dockyard. Pop: 73 468 (2001)

a town in SE Canada, in SE Ontario on the Thames River. Pop: 44 156 (2001)

British Dictionary definitions for chatham (2 of 2)

Chatham ²

/ (ˈtʃætəm) /

noun

1st Earl of title of the elder (William) Pitt See Pitt (def. 1)