coe
pronunciation
How to pronounce coe in British English:
UK 
How to pronounce coe in American English:
US
Word Origin
- coe (n.)
- "hut built over a mine shaft," 1650s, from some source akin to Dutch kouw, German kaue in the same sense, from West Germanic *kauja-, an early borrowing of Latin cavea "hollow," from cavus "a hollow" (see cave (n.)).
Example
- 1. At sunday morning 's olympic press briefing , a british reporter brandished a digital photo of empty seats at a men 's gymnastics event and asked london games chair sebastian coe to identify the guilty absentees .