• Londonphile

    Origin

    London + -phile

    Full definition of Londonphile

    Noun

    Londonphile

    (plural Londonphiles)
    1. One who is fond of the city of London.
      • 1976, European Community, Issues 192-198, page 38:A Londonphile returning to live here after more than six years away in Moscow and Rome is struck at almost every turning by the ways, mostly subtle, she has changed.
      • 2000, Rafe Mair, Rants, Raves, & Recollections, Whitecap Books (2000), ISBN 1552851451, page 82:I am, unashamedly an Anglophile and, if there is such a word, a Londonphile. My first trip to London did not come until February 1964.
      • 2012, Brian L. Evans, Pursuing China: Memoir of a Beaver Liaison Officer, The University of Alberta Press (2012), ISBN 9780888646002, page 49:I quickly became a Londonphile and did not regret choosing the University of London over Cambridge
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