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coventry

/ˈkɑvəntɹi/

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What does coventry mean?

proper noun

  1. A cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, central England, historically in Warwickshire.
  2. A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
  3. A town in Chenango County, New York.
More meanings (4)

proper noun

  1. A township in Summit County, Ohio.
  2. A town in Kent County, Rhode Island.
  3. A town and census-designated place therein, in Orleans County, Vermont.
  4. A surname.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈkɑvəntɹi/

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Next morning we reached Coventry, when the clouds cleared away, and the sun at last burst forth.
James NasmythJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyProject Gutenberg ebook #476
And I have heard the like of a woman in Killingworth pond, not far from Coventry.
Izaak WaltonThe Compleat AnglerProject Gutenberg ebook #683
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To be "sent to Coventry," "to be let severely alone," are indeed terrible dooms, but we cared naught for them.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
I am piloted around to take a hurried glance at Coventry, visiting, among other objects of interest, the Starley Memorial.
Thomas StevensAround the World on a Bicycle - Volume I From San Francisco to TeheranProject Gutenberg ebook #5136
Lady Coventry has miscarried of one or two children, and is going on with one or two more, and is gone to France to-day.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610