English Explanatory Dictionary

Cobh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and seaport in County Cork, Ireland.

Pronunciation

/kəʊv/

Word forms

Cobh

Etymology

From Irish an Cóbh, itself a Gaelicisation of English cove. Part of a wave of renamings in the 1920s following the Irish Revolution.

Synonyms

Queenstown
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