Word.ws English Dictionary

Coober Pedy

/ˈkuːbər ˈpiːdi/

Coober Pedy proper noun: a town in Coober Pedy district, Far North, South Australia, Australia.

Proper noun

Coober Pedy

  1. A town in Coober Pedy district, Far North, South Australia, Australia.
  2. A district of Far North, South Australia, Australia.

Origin of Coober Pedy

From Australian Aborigine kupa-piti, which means "whitefellas' hole".

Questions about Coober Pedy

What does Coober Pedy mean?
Coober Pedy means a town in Coober Pedy district, Far North, South Australia, Australia.
What part of speech is Coober Pedy?
Coober Pedy is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Coober Pedy?
Coober Pedy is pronounced /ˈkuːbər ˈpiːdi/.

Words near Coober Pedy in the dictionary

  1. coo-coos
  2. coo-ee
  3. coo-eed
  4. coo-eeing
  5. coo-ees
  6. Coober Pedy
  7. coobservability
  8. coobservable
  9. cooccupancy
  10. cooccupied
  11. cooccupies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Coober Pedy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Coober Pedy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/coober_pedy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.