Londoner

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Londoner

/ˈlʌn.də.nə(ɹ)/ UK
/ˈlʌn.də.nɚ/ Canada, US
/ˈlɐn.də.nə(ɹ)/ Australia, New Zealand

Where it comes from

From Middle English Londonere, from Old English Lundenware, Lundenwaran pl (“Londoners”), from Lunden (“London”) + -ware pl (suffix denoting inhabitants), equivalent to London + -er (“inhabitant of”, demonymic suffix).

noun Londoners · Lunnoner

A person from, or an inhabitant of, London. But the raw material that the Underground had to work on - Londoners themselves - was possibly not of the best. In 1905 Charles Yerkes had said: Londoners are the worst people to get a move on I ever knew. To see them board and get off a train one thinks they had a thousand years to do it in; still
Similar: Londonite

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noun person from or inhabitant of London

Español	londinense
한국어	런던 사람 reondeon saram
日本語	ロンドン人 Rondon-jin
中文	倫敦人 /伦敦人 Lúndūnrén
Português	londrino, londrina
Français	Londonien, Londonienne
Deutsch	Londoner, Londonerin
Italiano	londinese
Ελληνικά	Λονδρέζος Londrézos, Λονδρέζα Londréza
Română	londonez, londoneză
Русский	ло́ндонец lóndonec, ло́ндонка lóndonka, лондонча́нин londončánin, лондонча́нина londončánina
العربية	لَنْدَنِيّ landaniyy, لَنْدَنِيَّة landaniyya

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@misc{londoner_2026,
  title = {Londoner},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/londoner},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}