London

Pronunciation

• enPR: lÅ­n'dÉ™n, IPA: /ˈlÊŒn.dÉ™n/
• Rhymes: -ÊŒndÉ™n

Origin

Borrowing from la Londīnium.

Full definition of London

Proper noun

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 12,000,000.
2. A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
3. A city in Ohio, USA, with a population of approximately 9,000.
4. A city in Kentucky, USA, with a population of approximately 8,000.
5. A city in Arkansas, USA, with a population of approximately 900.
6. A city in California, USA, with a population of approximately 1,800.
7. A community in Texas, USA, with a population of approximately 180.
8. A community in West Virginia, USA.
9. A settlement in Kiribati, on Easter Island.
10. for someone from London.
11. (rare) transferred from the place name.
• 2012 Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, 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.

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