CANTERBURY
Dictionary entry overview: What does Canterbury mean? • CANTERBURY (noun)
The noun CANTERBURY has 1 sense:
1. a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
Familiarity information: CANTERBURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CANTERBURY (noun)
Meaning:
A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Canterbury" is a part of...):
Kent (a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans)
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