Collingwood

[kol-ing-wood]

noun

1. a city in SE Australia, near Melbourne.

2. a town in S Ontario, in S Canada, on Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.

Example Sentences

Every man, woman or child 'barracks' for a team, whether it is Carlton, Hawthorn, St Kilda, the unpopular but successful Collingwood, or Fleming's team Essendon, where his daughter plays for the women's side.

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So when in Melbourne, skip the fish and chips — or even pavlova — and opt for a prosciutto-stacked focaccia from Stefanino Panino in Collingwood or a meatball sub made from a three-generation-old recipe at Piccolo Viccolo in Ascot Vale.

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McKinney committed to cricket at the age of 16 – given confidence by Durham's -production line which has overseen the development of Ben Stokes, Mark Wood, Paul Collingwood and Steve Harmison among others.

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In The Archers, the world's longest running radio soap opera which is recorded in Birmingham, Charles Collingwood is part of the furniture.

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"He was very happily married and wealthy and brought up Jennifer's children, and I think they were in danger of being written out of the programme, because lovely as that is in real life, there's not much drama in that," said Mr Collingwood.

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