Noun: Coventry kó-vun-tree
- 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
- The state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
"the association should get rid of its elderly members — not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry";
- banishment, ostracism
Type of: city, exclusion, metropolis, urban center [US], urban centre [Brit, Cdn]
Part of: England
Encyclopedia: Coventry, Rhode Island