COVENTRY

Coventry

(noun) 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

banishment, ostracism, Coventry

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Cov"en*try (kv"en-tr), n.

Definition: A town in the county of Warwick, England. To send to Coventry, to exclude from society; to shut out from social intercourse, as for ungentlemanly conduct.

– Coventry blue, blue thread of a superior dye, made at Coventry, England, and used for embroidery.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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