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London

  • /ˈlʌn.dən/
  • /ˈlʌ.nən/ dialectal
  • /ˈlʊn.dən/ Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌndən

Where it comes from

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

proper noun Londons

  1. countable, uncountable 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. 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. countable, uncountable A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
  3. countable, metonymically, uncountable The government of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Westminster.
  4. countable, uncountable A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
  5. countable, uncountable A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.
  6. countable, uncountable A village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati. 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.
  7. countable, uncountable An urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
  8. countable, uncountable A small city in Pope County, Arkansas, with a population of approximately 900.
  9. countable, uncountable A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, with a population of approximately 1,800.
  10. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
  11. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Laurel County, Kentucky, with a population of approximately 8,000.
  12. countable, uncountable A township and unincorporated community therein, in Monroe County, Michigan.
  13. countable, uncountable A township and unincorporated community therein, in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
  14. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, with a population of approximately 9,000.
  15. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Kimble County, Texas, with a population of approximately 180.
  16. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
  17. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Dane County and Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
  18. countable, uncountable A habitational surname for someone from London.
  19. countable, rare, uncountable A unisex given name transferred from the place name. 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.

Similar: Eine, Londongrad, Londonistan, Moscow-on-Thames, Rum-ville, the Big Smoke, the Great Wen, the Smoke

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: greater london, british capital, birmingham, brighton, basingstoke, boston, holyhead, derry, toronto, lund, kingston, paris, leiden, heathrow, tokyo, frankfurt

Translations

Every language

name capital of England and United Kingdom

EspañolLondres
한국어런던 Reondeon
日本語ロンドン Rondon
中文倫敦 /伦敦 Lúndūn
हिन्दीलंदन landan
KiswahiliLondon
PortuguêsLondres
FrançaisLondres
DeutschLondon
ItalianoLondra
ΕλληνικάΛονδίνο Londíno
RomânăLondra
РусскийЛо́ндон Lóndon
Tiếng ViệtLuân Đôn, Lôn-đôn
العربيةلَنْدَن landan, اَللُّنْدُنَة al-lundona, لُنْدْرَة lundra, لُنْدُن lundun
עבריתלוֹנְדּוֹן lóndon

name of, from or pertaining to London in the UK

Españollondinense, de Londres
한국어런던 Reondeon
Portuguêslondrino, de Londres
Françaislondonien, de Londres
DeutschLondoner, londonisch
Italianolondinese, di Londra
Ελληνικάλονδρέζικος londrézikos
Русскийло́ндонский lóndonskij

name in Ontario, Canada

EspañolLondon
한국어런던 Reondeon
日本語ロンドン Rondon
中文倫敦 /伦敦 Lúndūn
PortuguêsLondon
FrançaisLondon
DeutschLondon
ItalianoLondon
ΕλληνικάΛόντον Lónton
РусскийЛо́ндон Lóndon
العربيةلَنْدَن landan

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@misc{london_2026,
  title = {London},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/london},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}