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London

name
/ˈlʌn.dən/

Etymology

From Middle English Londoun, from Old English Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium – see for details. Doublet of Londinium.

  1. derived from Londinium
  2. inherited from Lunden
  3. inherited from Londoun

Definitions

  1. The capital city of the United Kingdom

    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.

  2. A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex…

    A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.

  3. The government of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Westminster.

  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.

    2. A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire…

      A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.

    3. A village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati.

      • 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.

    4. An urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.

    5. Several places in the United States

      Several places in the United States:

    6. A habitational surname for someone from London.

    7. A unisex given name transferred from the place name.

      • 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.

The neighborhood

Derived

Central London, City of London, County of London, East London, Greater London, Inner London, Little London, London Bridge, London broil, London bus, London-centric, London City, London Colney, London dispersion force, Londoner, Londonese, London Fields, London fog, Londongrad, London Grove, Londonish, Londonism, Londonistan, Londonize, London Lakes, London moment, London paste, Londonphile, London plane, London pride, London rocket, Londonshire, London sink, London smoke, London to a brick, London tuft, London Underground, Londonward, London weighting, Lord Mayor of London · +6 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at London. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01london02middlesex03jamaica04massachusetts05boston06lincolnshire07northamptonshire08bedfordshire09cambridgeshire10essex

A definitional loop anchored at london. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at london

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA