London

From Middle English London, from Old English Lunden, a borrowing from Latin Londīnium.

• enPR: lŭn'dən, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌn.dən/

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• Rhymes: -ʌndən

London

1. The capital city of the United Kingdom and of England, situated near the mouth of the River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.
2. A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
3. A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
4. A city in Ohio, US, the county seat of Madison County, with a population of approximately 9,000.
5. A city in Kentucky, US, and the county seat of Laurel County, with a population of approximately 8,000.
6. A city in Arkansas, US, with a population of approximately 900.
7. A city in California, US, with a population of approximately 1,800.
8. A community in Texas, US, with a population of approximately 180.
9. A community in West Virginia, US.
10. A settlement in Kiribati, on Easter Island.
11. A habitational surname​. for someone from London.
12. (rare) A male or female given name transferred from the place name.
    • 2012 Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair (2013), →ISBN, page 178:

      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.

• (in the United Kingdom): the Big Smoke, Eine, the Great Wen, Londongrad, Londonistan, Rum-ville, the Smoke

• the City
• Cockney
• Londonshire

• 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

• Donlon, nonold

London

1. London (city)

• IPA^(key): /lɔndə(n)/

London n

1. London

London

1. London (city)

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔndɔn/ (most common)
• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔndn̩/ (particularly Swiss; also elsewhere, but often perceived as affected)

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London n (genitive Londons)

1. London (capital of the UK)

• IPA^(key): [ˈlondon]
• Hyphenation: Lon‧don

London

1. London

• Lundon, Londun, Londoun, Lunden

From Old English Lunden, from Latin Londīnium, further etymology disputed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlundən/

London

1. London (the capital of England)

• English: London
• Scots: Lunnon

• “Lǒndon (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.

London

1. London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

• londoner
• Stor-London

London

1. London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

• londonar
• Stor-London

London f

1. London (a city in Ontario, Canada)
2. (relatively rare) London (the capital city of England)

   Synonym: Londres

• IPA^(key): /lǒndoːn/
• Hyphenation: Lon‧don

Lòndōn m (Cyrillic spelling Ло̀ндо̄н)

1. London

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔndɔn/

London n (genitive Londons)

1. London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom

London

1. London