London
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: lŭn'dən
ipa: /ˈlʌn.dən/
enpr: lŭ'nən
ipa: /ˈlʌ.nən/
ipa: /ˈlʊn.dən/
rhymes: -ʌndən
Forms: form: Londons
Etymology: From Middle English London, from Old English Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium – see for details. Doublet of Londinium.
Senses: examples: text: An eccentric city with a live-and-let-live vibe, London is a place where people can be free to be themselves, find the communities to which they belong and write whatever they want. There are, in a sense, many Londons for writers to explore.
ref: 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:
glosses: The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.
glosses: A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
glosses: The government of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Westminster.
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examples: text: The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.
ref: 1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018, page 188:
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glosses: A habitational surname for someone from London.
examples: text: Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London.
ref: 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
Synonyms: sense: in the United Kingdom
word: the Big Smoke
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: Eine
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: the Great Wen
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: Londongrad
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: Londonistan
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: Moscow-on-Thames
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: Rum-ville
sense: in the United Kingdom
word: the Smoke
Derived terms: City of London
East London
Greater London
Little London
London Bridge
London broil
London-centric
London City
London Colney
London dispersion force
Londoner
Londonese
London Fields
London fog
Londongrad
Londonish
Londonism
Londonistan
Londonize
London moment
London paste
Londonphile
London plane
London pride
London rocket
Londonshire
London smoke
London to a brick
London tuft
London Underground
Londonward
London weighting
Lord Mayor of London
Multicultural London English
New London
Tower of London
Related terms: the City
Cockney
Londonshire