London

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English

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 London (disambiguation) on Wikipedia
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Etymology

From Middle English London, from Old English Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium - see for details.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lŭn'dən, IPA(key): /ˈlʌn.dən/
  • (dialectal) enPR: lŭ'nən, IPA(key): /ˈlʌ.nən/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌndən

Proper noun

London (countable and uncountable, plural Londons)

  1. The capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.
    • 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times‎:
      An eccentric city with a live-and-let-live vibe, London is a place where people can be free to be themselves, find the communities to which they belong and write whatever they want. There are, in a sense, many Londons for writers to explore.
  2. A former administrative county in England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
  3. (figuratively) The government of the United Kingdom.
  4. A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
  5. A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.
  6. A village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati.
  7. An urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
  8. Several places in the United States:
    1. A small city in Pope County, Arkansas, with a population of approximately 900.
    2. A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, with a population of approximately 1,800.
    3. An unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
    4. A city, the county seat of Laurel County, Kentucky, with a population of approximately 8,000.
    5. An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
    6. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, with a population of approximately 9,000.
    7. An unincorporated community in Kimble County, Texas, with a population of approximately 180.
    8. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
    9. An unincorporated community in Dane County and Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
  9. A habitational surname for someone from London.
  10. (rare) A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
    • 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, 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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Norwegian Bokmål: London

Translations

See London/translations § Proper noun.

See also

References

Further reading

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

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Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Danish

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Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

London n

  1. London (a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada)

Usage notes

The city in England, capital of England and the United Kingdom, is invariably named Londen in Dutch. The spelling “London” is used for other cities, such as London, Ontario.

Estonian

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Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Faroese

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Proper noun

London ?

  1. London (the capital of the United Kingdom; capital of England)

German

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔndɔn/ (most common)
  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔndn̩/ (particularly Swiss; also elsewhere, but often perceived as affected)
  • Audio(file)

Proper noun

London n (proper noun, genitive Londons or (optionally with an article) London)

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Hungarian

 London on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative London —
accusative Londont —
dative Londonnak —
instrumental Londonnal —
causal-final Londonért —
translative Londonná —
terminative Londonig —
essive-formal Londonként —
essive-modal — —
inessive Londonban —
superessive Londonon —
adessive Londonnál —
illative Londonba —
sublative Londonra —
allative Londonhoz —
elative Londonból —
delative Londonról —
ablative Londontól —
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		Londoné —
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		Londonéi —
Possessive forms of London
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. Londonom —
2nd person sing. Londonod —
3rd person sing. Londonja —
1st person plural Londonunk —
2nd person plural Londonotok —
3rd person plural Londonjuk —

Derived terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English Lunden, from Latin Londinium - see for details.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of England)

Descendants

References

Norwegian Bokmål

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The City of London viewed from the balcony at City Hall.

Etymology

From English London, from Middle English London (“London”), from Old English Lunden (“London”), a borrowing from Latin Londinium (“London”), likely from Proto-Celtic *Londinjon (“place that floods”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“to sink; subdue”) - see the Latin entry for details.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɔndɔn/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔn
  • Hyphenation: Lon‧don

Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England) with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.
    London ligger på begge sider av elven Themsen i Sørøst-England.
    London is located on both sides of the River Thames in the South East of England.
  2. London (a former administrative county in England), created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
  3. (figuratively) The government of the United Kingdom.
  4. London (a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada), with a population of approximately 300,000.
  5. London (a small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France).
  6. London (a village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati).
  7. London (an urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia).
  8. Several places in the United States:
    1. London (a small city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States), with a population of approximately 900.
    2. London (a census-designated place in Tulare County, California, United States).
    3. London (an unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana, United States).
    4. London (a city, the county seat of Laurel County, Kentucky, United States), with a population of approximately 8,000.
    5. London (an unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota, United States).
    6. London (a city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, United States), with a population of approximately 9,000.
    7. London (a small city in California, United States), with a population of approximately 1,800.
    8. London (an unincorporated community in Kimble County, Texas, United States), with a population of approximately 180.
    9. London (an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States).
    10. London (an unincorporated community in Dane County and Jefferson County, Wisconsin, United States).

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Derived terms

Portuguese

Proper noun

London

  1. London (a city in Ontario, Canada)
  2. (rare) Synonym of Londres

Serbo-Croatian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lǒndoːn/
  • Hyphenation: Lon‧don

Proper noun

Lòndōn m (Cyrillic spelling Ло̀ндо̄н)

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Declension

Declension of London
singular
nominative Lòndōn
genitive Londóna
dative Londónu
accusative Lòndōn
vocative Lȍndōne
locative Londónu
instrumental Londónom

Swedish

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

London n (genitive Londons)

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Derived terms

Tatar

Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)

Declension

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declension of London
singular plural
nominative London London
genitive London London
dative London London
accusative London London
locative London London
ablative London London

Uzbek

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Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital city of the United Kingdom; capital city of England)
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