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Coventry

//ˈkɑvəntɹi// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A cathedral city and metropolitan borough of the West Midlands, in central England, historically in Warwickshire.

    "Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen."

  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A town in Chenango County, New York.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A township in Summit County, Ohio.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A town in Kent County, Rhode Island.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Orleans County, Vermont.
  2. 7
    A surname.

    "Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has had an eventful career, from the pool, to parliament."

Noun
  1. 1
    the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English Coventre, from Old English Cofentrēo, Cofantrēo, of obscure origin. Believed to be derived from an Anglo-Saxon named Cofa, hence Cofantrēo (literally “Cofa's tree”).

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