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Coventry

Coventry

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A city in central England known for industry, the Lady Godiva story, and wartime damage
  • proper noun
  • /ˈkʌvəntri/
translation icon : Coventry
  • His Majesty the King, accompanied by Mr Churchill, toured the devastated streets of Coventry that has suffered the most indiscriminate and vicious attacks of Hitler's Luftwaffe.
  • Coventry, England
  • Coventry Patmore
  • Warwick University in Coventry

It's in Coventry and we're about an hour away I guess from the venue now.

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Examples

  • The ruins of Coventry Cathedral serve as a powerful reminder of the city's resilience after the war.

  • I'm going to Leicester, and then to Coventry.

  • The future of Coventry is in your hands.

  • It's in Coventry and we're about an hour away I guess from the venue now.

  • In the West Midlands, there is also a difference between Coventry and Birmingham.

    Blog text (14)
  • All the way from Coventry, it's St Bernadette's.

  • The last 35 years now, I've been in Coventry.

  • This was Coventry Cathedral.

  • Chalmers is a professor of visualization in the Warwick Digital Laboratory at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Coventry is famous for its rich history and the story of Coventry Lady Godiva.

Idioms

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Surface Forms

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Etymology

Coventry comes from an old English name that meant 'Cofa's tree', where Cofa was a man's name and treow means 'tree'. The town grew up around that meeting tree, which is why the city still has that name today.