CANTERBURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Canterbury mean? 

• CANTERBURY (noun)
  The noun CANTERBURY has 1 sense:

1. a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church

  Familiarity information: CANTERBURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANTERBURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Kent (a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans)

 Context examples 

It was at Canterbury where we last met.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At Canterbury, therefore, we alighted, only to find that we should have to wait an hour before we could get a train to Newhaven.

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

“And how is our good friend the Doctor, Copperfield?” said Mr. Micawber, “and all the circle at Canterbury?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We shall get out at Canterbury.

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

I was at the coach office to take leave of her and see her go; and there was he, returning to Canterbury by the same conveyance.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This train stops at Canterbury; and there is always at least a quarter of an hour’s delay at the boat.

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

Coming into Canterbury, I loitered through the old streets with a sober pleasure that calmed my spirits, and eased my heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have brought Agnes from the Canterbury coach, and her cheerful and beautiful face is among us for the second time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

On Monday next, on the arrival of the four o'clock afternoon coach at Canterbury, my foot will be on my native heath—my name, Micawber!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Micawber, who had been helping us all, out of the wash-hand-stand jug, replied: To Canterbury.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)