COVENTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coventry mean? 

• COVENTRY (noun)
  The noun COVENTRY has 2 senses:

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

2. an industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century

  Familiarity information: COVENTRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COVENTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

banishment; Coventry; ostracism

Context example:

the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry

Hypernyms ("Coventry" is a kind of...):

exclusion (the state of being excluded)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Coventry" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

He is in the Midland Electrical Company, at Coventry.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My father had a small factory at Coventry, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have looked, a little shrinking creature, at that door, until the owners of all the names—there were five-and-forty of them in the school then, Mr. Mell said—seemed to send me to Coventry by general acclamation, and to cry out, each in his own way, Take care of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)