Londongrad
name/ˈlʌndənɡɹad/UK
Etymology
From London + Russian град (grad, “town”), after placenames such as Leningrad and Kaliningrad.
Definitions
London, seen as a haven for Eastern European (especially Russian) exiles.
- In summer 2007 I confronted Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, over the “Londongrad” phenomenon.
- One recent Russian emigrant to ‘Londongrad’ (also known as ‘Moscow-on-Thames’), argues that, ‘if in the 90s Russian migrants were associated with mobsters and gangsters, now it will be a wave of so-called creative class emigration.’
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Londongrad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA