1. Covent Garden - Noun
2. Covent Garden - Proper noun
A district in central London.
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Covent Garden (plural Covent Gardens)
(Cockney rhyming slang, archaic) A farthing.
He was not an intellectual: on returning from one evening at the opera he wrote, "Went to Covent Garden and saw Fidelio and damned dull it was." citation Nonetheless, he was earnestly devoted to Britain and its Commonwealth. Source: Internet
A visit to a Punch and Judy Festival at Punch's "birthplace" in London's Covent Garden will reveal a whole variety of changes that are wrung by puppeteers from this basic material. Source: Internet
Everybody was easy and seemed pleased. citation Opera at Covent Garden (1734–41) In 1733 the Earl of Essex received a letter with the following sentence: "Handel became so arbitrary a prince, that the Town murmurs". Source: Internet
At last in 1838 William Macready at Covent Garden performed Shakespeare's version, freed from Tate's adaptions. Source: Internet
Drawn to the theatre—he became an early member of the Garrick Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman, p.7 —he landed an acting audition at Covent Garden, where the manager George Bartley and the actor Charles Kemble were to see him. Source: Internet
Eliza sees that she no longer belongs in Covent Garden, and she and Freddy depart. Source: Internet