Usually means: Town, home to Amherst College.
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  1. Amherst: Merriam-Webster
  2. Amherst: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Amherst: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Amherst: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Amherst, amherst: Wordnik
  6. Amherst: Wiktionary
  7. Amherst: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Amherst: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Amherst: Dictionary.com
  10. Amherst (Amtrak station), Amherst (disambiguation), Amherst (surname), Amherst: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Amherst: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Amherst (disambiguation), Amherst: Encyclopedia

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  1. Amherst: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Amherst)

noun:  An English surname.
noun:  A city in Ohio.
noun:  A city in Texas.
noun:  A town in Maine.
noun:  A town in Massachusetts.
noun:  A town in New Hampshire.
noun:  A town in New York.
noun:  A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
noun:  A town in Quebec, Canada.
noun:  A town in Victoria, Australia.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Amherst County, Virginia.
noun:  A village in Nebraska.
noun:  A village in Wisconsin.
noun:  A census-designated place in Colorado.
noun:  (British) Ellipsis of Lady Amherst's pheasant.. [(UK) A colourful pheasant, Chrysolophus amherstiae, indigenous to China but also found in Bedfordshire.]

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