BLOOMSBURY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bloomsbury mean? 

• BLOOMSBURY (noun)
  The noun BLOOMSBURY has 1 sense:

1. a city district of central London laid out in garden squares

  Familiarity information: BLOOMSBURY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOOMSBURY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city district of central London laid out in garden squares

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city district (a district of a town or city)

Holonyms ("Bloomsbury" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

There, framed in the doorway, was a tall and beautiful woman—the mysterious lodger of Bloomsbury.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one of the streets which runs down into Holborn.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)