Canterbury
pronunciation
How to pronounce Canterbury in British English:
UK [ˈkæntəbəri]
How to pronounce Canterbury in American English:
US [ˈkæntɚˌbɛri, -bri, -tə-]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- Canterbury
- Old English Cantware-buruh "fortified town of the Kentish people," from Cant-ware "the people of Kent" (see Kent). The Roman name was Duroverno, from Romano-British *duro- "walled town." Pope Gregory the Great intended to make London, as the largest southern Anglo-Saxon city, the metropolitan see of southern England, but Christianity got a foothold first in the minor kingdom of Kent, whose heathen ruler Ethelbert had married a Frankish Christian princess. London was in the Kingdom of Essex and out of reach of the missionaries at first. Therefore, in part perhaps to flatter Ethelbert, his capital was made the cathedral city. Related: Canterburian.
Example
- 1. The archbishop of canterbury know you talk like this ?
- 2. In a gun battle with police near canterbury .
- 3. On the realistic style of chaucer 's canterbury tales .
- 4. Will you take me to canterbury and bring me back ?
- 5. Italian monk and scholastic theologian who became archbishop of canterbury .