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COVENTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
Example:
the association should get rid of its elderly members--not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry
Synonyms:
banishment; Coventry; ostracism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Coventry" is a kind of...):
exclusion (the state of being excluded)
