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send to Coventry

send to Coventry verb: to ostracize, or systematically ignore someone.

Verb

send to Coventry (third-person singular simple present sends to Coventry, present participle sending to Coventry, simple past and past participle sent to Coventry)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To ostracize, or systematically ignore someone.
    • The group decided to send the unpopular members to Coventry.
    • "For the statement, in the form in which I offered it, Mr. President, I have no retraction or apology to offer, and only such explanation as I have lately given." "Coventry! Coventry!" came the insistent call. "Well, then, you can send me to Coventry, you friends of Darrin, if you feel yourselves...2006, H. Irving Hancock, Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis, →ISBN, page 159

send to Coventry meaning in Bengali

send to Coventry in Bengali

কাউকে একঘরে করা, বা পরিকল্পিতভাবে উপেক্ষা করা

Forms of send to Coventry

third-person singular presentsends to Coventry
present participlesending to Coventry
past participlesent to Coventry
pastsent to Coventry

Origin of send to Coventry

Some believe that the phrase dates from the English Civil War, when a military prison was located in that city. Others say it dates from the 18th century, when Coventry was the nearest town to London that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Bow Street Runners and so London criminals would flee to Coventry to escape arrest.

Questions about send to Coventry

What does send to Coventry mean?
Send to Coventry means to ostracize, or systematically ignore someone.
What is send to Coventry in Bengali?
Send to Coventry in Bengali is কাউকে একঘরে করা, বা পরিকল্পিতভাবে উপেক্ষা করা. See Send to Coventry meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is send to Coventry?
Send to Coventry is a verb.
What is the past tense of send to Coventry?
The past tense of send to Coventry is sent to Coventry.

Words near send to Coventry in the dictionary

  1. send outs
  2. send shivers down someone's spine
  3. send someone packing
  4. send someone to the showers
  5. send the flood
  6. send to Coventry
  7. send to dorse
  8. send to the glue factory
  9. send to the scaffold
  10. send up
  11. send word

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Adapted from Wiktionary: send to Coventry (page history and authors); send to Coventry (Bengali Wiktionary) (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.

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