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Lon·don

(lŭn′dən)

1. The capital and largest city of the United Kingdom, on the Thames River in southeast England. Greater London consists of 32 boroughs surrounding the City of London, built on the site of a Roman outpost named Londinium. Its growth as an important trade center dates from 886, under the rule of Alfred the Great. Since the Elizabethan period (1558-1603) London has dominated its country's political, economic, and cultural life.

2. A city of southeast Ontario, Canada, southwest of Toronto. It was settled in 1826.

Lon′don·er n.

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London

(ˈlʌndən)

1. (Placename) the capital of the United Kingdom, a port in S England on the River Thames near its estuary on the North Sea: consists of the City (the financial quarter), the West End (the entertainment and major shopping centre), the East End (the industrial and former dock area), and extensive suburbs. Latin name: Londinium See also City

2. (Placename) Greater London the administrative area of London, consisting of the City of London and 32 boroughs (13 Inner London boroughs and 19 Outer London boroughs): formed in 1965 from the City, parts of Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Hertfordshire, and almost all of Middlesex, and abolished for administrative purposes in 1996: a Mayor of London and a new London Assembly took office in 2000. Pop: 8 308 369 (2012 est). Area: 1579 sq km (610 sq miles)

3. (Placename) a city in SE Canada, in SE Ontario on the Thames River: University of Western Ontario (1878). Pop: 337 318 (2001)

4. it's London to a brick slang Austral and NZ it is certain

London

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(Biography) Jack, full name John Griffith London. 1876–1916, US novelist, short-story writer, and adventurer. His works include Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Iron Heel (1907), and the semiautobiographical John Barleycorn (1913)

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Lon•don

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n.

1. Jack (John Griffith Chaney), 1876–1916, U.S. novelist.

2. a metropolis in SE England, on the Thames: capital of the United Kingdom.

3. City of, an old city in the central part of the former county of London: the ancient nucleus of the modern metropolis. 4700; 1 sq. mi. (3 sq. km).

4. County of, a former administrative county comprising the City of London and 28 metropolitan boroughs, now part of Greater London.

5. Greater, an urban area comprising the city of London and 32 metropolitan boroughs. 6,967,500; 609 sq. mi. (1575 sq. km).

6. a city in S Ontario, in SE Canada. 303,165.

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Noun	1.	London - the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center British capital, capital of the United Kingdom, Greater London Big Ben - clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, 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 Tower of London - a fortress in London on the Thames; used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels 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 England - a division of the United Kingdom City of London, the City - the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London Greenwich - a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time 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 Londoner - a native or resident of London
	2.	London - United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) Jack London, John Griffith Chaney

London

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Quotations
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford" [Dr. Johnson]
"London: a nation, not a city" [Benjamin Disraeli]
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained" [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet]
"city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty" [John Milton Areopagitica]

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Translations

لندنلَنْدَنْ

Лондон

Londýn

London

London

Λονδίνο

Londres London

London

لندن

LontoolontoolainenLondon

LondresLondonlondonien

London

Lundúnir

Londra

ロンドン

런던

Londinium

Londen

London

LondynlondyńskiLondon

LondresLondon

Londra

Лондон лондонский

Londýn

London

ลอนดอน

Londra

Лондон

Luân Đôn

伦敦

London

[ˈlʌndən]

A. N → Londres m

B. CPD → londinense
London pride N (Bot) → corona f de rey

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London

[ˈlʌndən]

n → Londres
in London → à Londres
to London → à Londres
I'm from London → je suis de Londres
to be London-based → être basé(e) à Londres

modif [address, street, branch] → londonien(ne); [area] → de Londres

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London

n → London nt

adj → Londoner

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London

[ˈlʌndən] n → Londra

London

→ لَنْدَنْ Londýn London London Λονδίνο Londres Lontoo Londres London Londra ロンドン 런던 Londen London Londyn Londres Лондон London ลอนดอน Londra Luân Đôn 伦敦

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In the widening of the shores sinking low in the gray, smoky distances the greatness of the sea receives the mercantile fleet of good ships that London sends out upon the turn of every tide.

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They remembered, likewise, the good feasts of London the profusion of ale and sherry with which the citizens of London paid their friends the soldiers; -- they looked with terror at the black war bread, at the troubled waters of the Tweed, -- too salt for the glass, not enough so for the pot; and they said to themselves, "Are not the roast meats kept warm for Monk in London?" From that time nothing was heard of but desertion in Lambert's army.

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During the fortnight that Alexander was in London he drove himself hard.

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Over two years passed, and the Schlegel household continued to lead its life of cultured but not ignoble ease, still swimming gracefully on the grey tides of London. Concerts and plays swept past them, money had been spent and renewed, reputations won and lost, and the city herself, emblematic of their lives, rose and fell in a continual flux, while her shallows washed more widely against the hills of Surrey and over the fields of Hertfordshire.

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In all the rainy desert of autumnal London there were only two people whom the Newland Archers knew; and these two they had sedulously avoided, in conformity with the old New York tradition that it was not "dignified" to force one's self on the notice of one's acquaintances in foreign countries.

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"When I came here from London with that horrible Diamond," he said, "I don't believe there was a happier household in England than this.

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"You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered, in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who'll do that for you."

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During the first days of Mirabel's sojourn at his hotel in London, events were in progress at Netherwoods, affecting the interests of the man who was the especial object of his distrust.