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Coverdale

American  
[kuhv-er-deyl] / ˈkʌv ərˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. Miles, 1488–1569, English divine: translator of the Bible into English 1535.


Coverdale British  
/ ˈkʌvəˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. Miles. 1488–1568, the first translator of the complete Bible into English (1535)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Then health problems among the band members — including Coverdale — derailed that effort after only a couple of months.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2025

Despite the record’s success, the bulk of their planned tour had to be axed because of poor ticket sales, leaving a reinvigorated Coverdale to reconstitute Whitesnake in 1994 with some new members.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 14, 2025

Until 2023 the rise in orange juice prices was disguised among food inflation in general, explains Philip Coverdale, an industry expert at consultancy firm GlobalData.

From BBC Oct. 21, 2025

Ruth Ann Coverdale was born on Jan. 17, 1935, in Milford, Del., the youngest of five children, and was raised in nearby Slaughter Neck.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2021

When Coverdale had finished his translation of the Bible, he carried the manuscript over to France and entrusted it to François Regnault.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

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