canterbury

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

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

From Canterbury.

We’ll be the Canterbury Pilgrims. — The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure Seekers, E. (Edith) Nesbit
--Chamberlain's Accounts, City of Canterbury, 1550-1. — Shakespeare's family, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
* <5> That toward Canterbury woulde ride. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer

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