London

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

• enPR: lŭn'dən, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌn.dən/
• (dialectal) enPR: lŭ'nən, IPA^(key): /ˈlʌ.nən/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈlʊn.dən/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ʌndən

London (countable and uncountable, plural Londons)

2. 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.
   • 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 May 2023:

     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.

3. A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
4. (metonymic) The government of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Westminster.
5. A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
6. A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.
7. A village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati.
   • 1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 August 2018, page 188:

     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.

8. An urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
9. 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. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Monroe County, Michigan.
   6. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
   7. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, with a population of approximately 9,000.
   8. An unincorporated community in Kimble County, Texas, with a population of approximately 180.
   9. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
   10. An unincorporated community in Dane County and Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
10. A habitational surname for someone from London.
11. (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.

• (in the United Kingdom): the Big Smoke, Eine, the Great Wen, Londongrad, Londonistan, Moscow-on-Thames, Rum-ville, the Smoke

• → Chinese: 倫敦 / 伦敦 (Lúndūn)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: London

• the City
• Cockney
• Londonshire

• Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎^[3], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 7.72, page 222.
• 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
• Report on the Kiribati 2015 Census of Population and Housing

• “London”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “London”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “London”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “London”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• London in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• London in the Encyclopædia Britannica (12th edition, 1922)

• Donlon, nonold

London

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

London

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

• IPA^(key): /lɔndə(n)/

London n

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

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.

London

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

London ?

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

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈlondon]
• Hyphenation: Lon‧don
• Rhymes: -on

London

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

• londoni

London

1. alternative form of Londoun

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔndɔn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation: Lon‧don

London

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

• “London” in Store norske leksikon
• “London (Canada)” in Store norske leksikon

London

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

• londonar
• Stor-London

London ?

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

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

Lòndōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling Ло̀ндо̄н)

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

• IPA^(key): /lɔ̀ːndɔn/

Lóndon m inan

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

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Lóndon
genitive	Lóndona
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Lóndon
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Lóndona
dative (dajȃlnik)	Lóndonu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Lóndon
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Lóndonu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Lóndonom

• Lóndončan / Lóndončanka
• lóndonski

• “London”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “London”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔndɔn/

London n (genitive Londons)

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

• londonsk
• Storlondon

London

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

London

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