LONDON
Dictionary entry overview: What does London mean?
• LONDON (noun)
The noun LONDON has 2 senses:
1. the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
2. United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
Familiarity information: LONDON used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LONDON (noun)
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "London"):
Big Ben (clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London)
Bloomsbury (a city district of central London laid out in garden squares)
Soho (a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs)
Wembley (a southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium)
West End (the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas)
City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)
Pall Mall (a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs)
Wimbledon (a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts)
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)
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)
Old Bailey (the central criminal court in London)
Fleet Street (a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated)
Harley Street (a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located)
Lombard Street (a street in central London containing many of the major London banks)
Whitehall (a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices)
Trafalgar Square (a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson)
Meronyms (members of "London"):
Londoner (a native or resident of London)
Holonyms ("London" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Meaning:
United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Jack London; John Griffith Chaney; London
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
