London

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English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
 London (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English London, from Old English Lunden, a borrowing from Latin Londīnium.

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

London (plural Londons)

  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 13,000,000.
  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 city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, United States, with a population of approximately 9,000.
  6. A city, the county seat of Laurel County, Kentucky, United States, with a population of approximately 8,000.
  7. A city in Arkansas, United States, with a population of approximately 900.
  8. A city in California, United States, with a population of approximately 1,800.
  9. A community in Texas, United States, with a population of approximately 180.
  10. A community in West Virginia, United States.
  11. A settlement in Kiribati, on Easter Island.
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  13. (rare) A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
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      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

Translations

See also

References

  • 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Anagrams

Azerbaijani

Proper noun

London

  1. London

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia da

Proper noun

London

  1. London (city)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

London n

  1. London

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

Estonian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia et

Proper noun

London

  1. London (city)

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia de

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, strong, genitive Londons)

  1. London (the capital of the United Kingdom)

Hungarian

 London on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlondon]
  • Hyphenation: Lon‧don

Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital of the United Kingdom and 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 Londīnium, further etymology disputed.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

London

  1. London (the capital of England)

Descendants

  • English: London
  • Scots: Lunnon

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

Proper noun

London

  1. London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Proper noun

London

  1. London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.

Derived terms

Portuguese

Proper noun

London f

  1. London (a city in Ontario, Canada)
  2. (relatively rare) London (the capital city of England)
    Synonym: Londres

Serbo-Croatian

Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sh

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Lòndōn m (Cyrillic spelling Ло̀ндо̄н)

  1. London

Declension

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

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv

Pronunciation

Proper noun

London n (genitive Londons)

  1. London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom

Tatar

Proper noun

London

  1. London

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
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