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Cobh

/kəʊv/

Cobh proper noun: a town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland.

Proper noun

Cobh

  1. A town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland.
    • Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.1955 May, Walter McGrath and Colm Creedon, “The Cork-Youghal-Cobh Section of C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 308
    Synonyms:
    Queenstown

Synonyms of Cobh

Origin of Cobh

From Irish an Cóbh, itself a Gaelicisation of English cove. Part of a wave of renamings in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

Questions about Cobh

What does Cobh mean?
Cobh means a town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland.
What part of speech is Cobh?
Cobh is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Cobh?
Cobh is pronounced /kəʊv/.

Words near Cobh in the dictionary

  1. Cobers
  2. cobette
  3. cobettes
  4. cobful
  5. cobfuls
  6. Cobh
  7. Cobham
  8. Cobhamite
  9. Cobhamites
  10. cobhouse
  11. cobhouses

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