[kuhv-uh
n-tree, kov-] 
| 1. | a city in West Midlands, in central England: heavily bombed 1940; cathedral. 337,000. |
| 2. | a town in central Rhode Island. 27,065. |
| 3. | send to Coventry, to refuse to associate with; openly and pointedly ignore: His friends sent him to Coventry after he was court-martialed. |
Cov·en·try 1 (kŭv'ĭn-trē)
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| Cov·en·try 2 (kŭv'ən-trē) n. A state of ostracism or exile: "It's not that smoke-filled rooms are back; smokers huddle in Coventry these days" (Flora Lewis). [After Coventry1, England (possibly from the sending of Royalist prisoners there during the English Civil War).] |