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Definition: Canterbury |
CanterburyNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Canterbury" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Literature | Canterbury Canterbury is the higher rack, but Winchester the better manger. Canterbury is the higher see in rank, but Winchester the one which produces the most money. This was the reply of William Edington, Bishop of Winchester, when offered the archbishopric of Canterbury (1366). Now Canterbury is 6,500. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Canterbury is a recording by Diamond Head. This is Diamond Head's third recording. The album was recorded and released in 1983.
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Canterbury is a cathedral city in the county of Kent in south-east England. Canterbury is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the primate of the Church of England. Its cathedral is the burial place of King Henry IV of England and of Edward the Black Prince, but is most famous as the scene of the murder of Thomas a Becket in 1170. As a result of this event, Canterbury became a major centre of pilgrimage, inspiring Geoffrey Chaucer to write his Canterbury Tales in 1387. The city is also associated with the family of Thomas More and was the birthplace of Christopher Marlowe.
During World War II the city was severely damaged when it was selected as one of the cities in England to be targeted by the Luftwaffe in the Baedeker Blitz.
Canterbury today is a major tourist centre, second only to London. It still contains many ancient buildings and modern building development within the medieval town centre is strictly regulated. The University of Kent at Canterbury stands on a hill about two miles outside the city centre: Chaucer College is an independent graduate college for Japanese students on its campus. (From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)Tracks
Canterbury, Connecticut
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 104.0 km² (40.2 mi²). 103.3 km² (39.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.62% water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 4,692 people, 1,717 households, and 1,339 families residing in the town. The population density is 45.4/km² (117.6/mi²). There are 1,762 housing units at an average density of 17.1/km² (44.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.34% White, 0.36% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.26% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 1.45% from two or more races. 1.07% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 1,717 households out of which 37.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.5% are married couples living together, 8.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.0% are non-families. 16.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.73 and the average family size is 3.06.
In the town the population is spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 9.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 103.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 97.9 males.
The median income for a household in the town is $55,547, and the median income for a family is $65,095. Males have a median income of $41,521 versus $28,672 for females. The per capita income for the town is $22,317. 4.5% of the population and 3.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.2% are under the age of 18 and 10.0% are 65 or older.Canterbury, England
Canterbury, New Hampshire
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine. |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Canterbury No. 2 - nuove storie d'amore del '300 (1973) I Racconti di Canterbury N. 2 (1972) Canterbury proibito (1972) Gli Altri racconti di Canterbury (1972) I Racconti di Canterbury (1971) | |
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 | Stuffed emperor penguins on display in the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The Canterbury Psalter, an illuminated manuscript dating from the mid-twelfth century; with illustration thought to be of Halley's Comet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, OB. 1556 / Flick pinx. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Canterbury Cathedral. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mr. and Mrs. August Udal, Finnish FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients. They have a poultry farm in Canterbury, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Some of the two thousand poulets on the poultry farm of Mr. August Udal, Finnish FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Canterbury, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Steve Dino, Italian FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Canterbury, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. August Udal, Finnish poultry farmer in Canterbury, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church, Rumson, New Jersey. Canterbury Hall. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | National Cathedral interiors. Canterbury Pulpit in National Cathedral. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Sydney Smith | I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | And on this head, we have caused to be made for them letters testimonial patent of the lord Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, of the lord Henry, archbishop of Dublin, of the bishops aforesaid, and of Master Pandulf as touching this security and the concessions aforesaid. (reference) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
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| "Canterbury" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Canterbury" is used about 1,226 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 1,226 | 6,365 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Canterbury" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Canterbury | Last name | 1,000 | 8,500 |
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| USA | Canterbury Information Technology, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Canterbury, CT 2. Canterbury, NH |
Expressions using "Canterbury": Canterbury ball ♦ canterbury bell ♦ canterbury bells ♦ Canterbury gallop ♦ Canterbury tale. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "Canterbury": Canterbury-bankstown, canterbury-nd. | |
Ending with "Canterbury": Cd-canterbury, Mid-canterbury. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Canterbury"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | mariëteklokke (bellflower, Canterbury bell), koppies‐en‐pierings, klokkie (bellflower, Canterbury bell). (various references) | |
Albanian | Etazher (whatnot). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Етажерка За Ноти. (various references) | |
Chinese | 坎特伯雷. (various references) | |
Czech | Canterbury. (various references) | |
Dutch | campanula (bellflower, Canterbury bell), klokje (bell, bellflower, Canterbury bell, little bell). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kampanolo (bellflower, Canterbury bell). (various references) | |
Hungarian | Canterbury. (various references) | |
Italian | Canterbury. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 風鈴草 (Canterbury bell). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふうり"そう (Canterbury bell). (various references) | |
Korean | "터 리. (various references) | |
Manx | claggan (Canterbury bell, electric bell). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anterburycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estante de músicas. (various references) | |
Russian | Кентербери, езная Этажерка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kanterberi. (various references) | |
Spanish | campánula (Campanula, canterbury bells, harebell). (various references) | |
Swedish | Notställ (music stand, music-rack), Nothylla. (various references) | |
Welsh | Caergaint. (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Canterbury" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caunterbury, Scantlebury. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-n-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: carburet, centaury. | |
-3 letters: cautery, centaur, century, currant, current, errancy, nectary, ternary, tracery, truancy, turbary, turnery, unbrace, uncrate, urbaner. | |
-4 letters: acuter, arbute, artery, banter, barren, barret, barter, baryte, beauty, betray, bracer, brayer, brunet, bunter, burner, burnet, butane, canter, carnet, carney, carter, centra, crater, curare, curate, curber, curran, curter, errant, nature, nearby, nectar, ranter, rebury. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-n-r-r-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: turbomachinery. | |
+5 letters: corynebacterium. | |
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