"covenstead" meaning in English

See covenstead in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈkʌvn̩ˌstɛd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav [Southern-England] Forms: covensteads [plural]
Etymology: coven + stead; first attested in 1969. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|coven|stead}} coven + stead Head templates: {{en-noun}} covenstead (plural covensteads)
  1. (Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location. Categories (topical): Wicca Translations (permanent circle or temple): kehä (Finnish), santuario de brujas [masculine] (Spanish), templo de aquelarre [masculine] (Spanish), santuario [masculine] (Spanish), escondite [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-covenstead-en-noun-BPILy1Xw Topics: Wicca, lifestyle, religion Disambiguation of 'permanent circle or temple': 96 4
  2. (Wicca, by metonymy) A Wiccan congregation. Tags: metonymically Categories (topical): Wicca, Places of worship, Wicca
    Sense id: en-covenstead-en-noun-Xsn3O~Dk Disambiguation of Places of worship: 30 70 Disambiguation of Wicca: 20 80 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 33 67 Topics: Wicca, lifestyle, religion

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for covenstead meaning in English (5.6kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "coven",
        "3": "stead"
      },
      "expansion": "coven + stead",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "coven + stead; first attested in 1969.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "covensteads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "covenstead (plural covensteads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cov‧en‧stead"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wicca",
          "orig": "en:Wicca",
          "parents": [
            "Paganism",
            "Religion",
            "Occult",
            "Culture",
            "Forteana",
            "Society",
            "Pseudoscience",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, June Johns, King of the witches: the world of Alex Sanders, page 108",
          "text": "He began being late for meetings and, as some members travelled quite a distance to the covenstead and had to leave promptly afterwards, Alex took him to task.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link\nIt used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next."
        },
        {
          "text": "1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29,\nIf that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions, page 66",
          "text": "The covenstead is the meeting place of a coven.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location."
      ],
      "id": "en-covenstead-en-noun-BPILy1Xw",
      "links": [
        [
          "Wicca",
          "Wicca"
        ],
        [
          "circle",
          "circle"
        ],
        [
          "mundane",
          "mundane"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Wicca",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
          "word": "kehä"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "santuario de brujas"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "templo de aquelarre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "santuario"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "96 4",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "escondite"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wicca",
          "orig": "en:Wicca",
          "parents": [
            "Paganism",
            "Religion",
            "Occult",
            "Culture",
            "Forteana",
            "Society",
            "Pseudoscience",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Places of worship",
          "orig": "en:Places of worship",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Buildings",
            "Religion",
            "Names",
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Culture",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Architecture",
            "Society",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Lemmas",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 80",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Wicca",
          "orig": "en:Wicca",
          "parents": [
            "Paganism",
            "Religion",
            "Occult",
            "Culture",
            "Forteana",
            "Society",
            "Pseudoscience",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Silver RavenWolf, Beneath a Mountain Moon, published 2005, page 104",
          "text": "For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, page 128",
          "text": "In connection with these principles the Dianic Covenstead had a very effective series of exercises and techniques for regaining kinship and attunement with nature.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book, page 53",
          "text": "It was easy to say they'd all get along fine—join other covensteads or live free like most everybody else, but the truth was that joining a covenstead was no easy task, and most wouldn't know what to do with themselves without a witch to serve.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Wiccan congregation."
      ],
      "id": "en-covenstead-en-noun-Xsn3O~Dk",
      "links": [
        [
          "Wicca",
          "Wicca"
        ],
        [
          "Wiccan",
          "Wiccan"
        ],
        [
          "congregation",
          "congregation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Wicca, by metonymy) A Wiccan congregation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "metonymically"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Wicca",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌvn̩ˌstɛd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "covenstead"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 3-syllable words",
    "English compound terms",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "en:Places of worship",
    "en:Wicca"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "coven",
        "3": "stead"
      },
      "expansion": "coven + stead",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "coven + stead; first attested in 1969.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "covensteads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "covenstead (plural covensteads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cov‧en‧stead"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Wicca"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, June Johns, King of the witches: the world of Alex Sanders, page 108",
          "text": "He began being late for meetings and, as some members travelled quite a distance to the covenstead and had to leave promptly afterwards, Alex took him to task.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1986, Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft, link\nIt used to be that one covendom could not overlap another, so one covenstead would never be closer than six miles to the next."
        },
        {
          "text": "1993, Janet Thompson, Of Witches: Celebrating the Goddess As a Solitary Pagan, page 29,\nIf that is the case, then the home of the high Priestess is likely to be referred to as the covenstead."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, James R. Lewis, Witchcraft today: an encyclopedia of Wiccan and neopagan traditions, page 66",
          "text": "The covenstead is the meeting place of a coven.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Wicca",
          "Wicca"
        ],
        [
          "circle",
          "circle"
        ],
        [
          "mundane",
          "mundane"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Wicca",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Wicca"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Silver RavenWolf, Beneath a Mountain Moon, published 2005, page 104",
          "text": "For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America, page 128",
          "text": "In connection with these principles the Dianic Covenstead had a very effective series of exercises and techniques for regaining kinship and attunement with nature.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Bitter Night: A Horngate Witches Book, page 53",
          "text": "It was easy to say they'd all get along fine—join other covensteads or live free like most everybody else, but the truth was that joining a covenstead was no easy task, and most wouldn't know what to do with themselves without a witch to serve.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Wiccan congregation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Wicca",
          "Wicca"
        ],
        [
          "Wiccan",
          "Wiccan"
        ],
        [
          "congregation",
          "congregation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Wicca, by metonymy) A Wiccan congregation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "metonymically"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "Wicca",
        "lifestyle",
        "religion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkʌvn̩ˌstɛd/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/24/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-covenstead.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
      "word": "kehä"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "santuario de brujas"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "templo de aquelarre"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "santuario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "permanent circle or temple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "escondite"
    }
  ],
  "word": "covenstead"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.