Coventry (disambiguation)
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Coventry is a city in England (population 304,746). With this meaning, several Royal Navy ships have been named (see HMS Coventry).
There are several U.S. towns named Coventry:
- Coventry, Connecticut (population 11,504)
- Coventry, New York (population 1,589)
- Coventry, Rhode Island (population 33,668)
- Coventry, Vermont (population 1,014)
- Coventry, Pennsylvania
- The commercial district of Coventry Village, Ohio is often referred to as Coventry.
To be "sent to Coventry" is to be ostracised, shunned, or otherwise systematically ignored. The phrase dates from the English Civil War, when a military prison was located in the city.
Also, there is an asteroid named 3009 Coventry.
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