coventry

Other forms of coventry

plural

coventries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coventry

What does coventry mean?

coventry means "the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coventry?

coventry has 3 syllables: cov-en-try. The stress falls on "cov". In IPA it is /ˈkʌvəntɹi/.

What is another word for coventry?

Close synonyms include banishment, ostracism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coventry a common word?

coventry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.