LONDON

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center

Synonyms:

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "London"):

Wimbledon (a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts)

Pall Mall (a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs)

City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)

West End (the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas)

Wembley (a southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium)

Soho (a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs)

Bloomsbury (a city district of central London laid out in garden squares)

Greenwich (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time)

City of London; the City (the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London)

Trafalgar Square (a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson)

Whitehall (a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices)

Lombard Street (a street in central London containing many of the major London banks)

Harley Street (a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located)

Fleet Street (a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated)

Old Bailey (the central criminal court in London)

Tower of London (a fortress in London on the Thames; used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels)

Newgate (a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902)

Big Ben (clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London)

Meronyms (members of "London"):

Londoner (a native or resident of London)

Holonyms ("London" is a part of...):

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

Londoner (a native or resident of London)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)

Synonyms:

Jack London; John Griffith Chaney; London

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Credits

Context examples:

“Here you are,” he cried, “and the doctor came last night from London. Bravo! The ship's company complete!”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It chanced on one of these rambles that their way led them down a by-street in a busy quarter of London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The researchers from Imperial College London in the UK concluded that there could be nearly 12,000 Olympic sized pools of organic matter on Mars that could represent traces of past life.

(Red Planet May Have Harbored Life in Past, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

More than 2000 London primary schoolchildren, from a range of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, were included in the study, which looked at their physical activity levels, body composition and socioeconomic status.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

A particular friend of mine had an account of it in a letter from London yesterday.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Writing in the journal BMC Medicine, researchers from Imperial College London and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology analyzed 29 previous studies from around the world on the health benefits of nuts.

(Daily Handful of Nuts Reduces Disease Risk, VOA)

EORTC maintains close working relationship with NCI and the British Cancer Research United Kingdom in London.

(European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The recommended sleep duration for a 10 year old is 10 hours and so a child getting just one hour less has a higher risk, researchers from University of St George's London said.

(An Hour Less Sleep Ups Diabetes Risk, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

New King's College London research reveals how blood inflammation affects the birth and death of brain cells, which could offer new treatment targets for antidepressants.

(Scientists Reveal How Inflammation Affects The Life of Brain Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London.