canterbury
noun
canterbury is a noun meaning “A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-N-T-E-R-B-U-R-Y and has 4 syllables, and it appears 5.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of canterbury is canterburys or canterburies.
What does canterbury mean?
noun
- 1
A rack for magazines or other papers, usually wooden, often done as a decorative piece.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce canterbury?
- US
Canterbury has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-canterbury.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of canterbury
- canterburys plural
- canterburies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is canterbury?
Canterbury appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does canterbury come from?
From Canterbury.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).