LONDON

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 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)

Sense 1

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"):

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)

Wimbledon (a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts)

Pall Mall (a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs)

City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)

West End (the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas)

Wembley (a southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium)

Soho (a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs)

Bloomsbury (a city district of central London laid out in garden squares)

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)

Trafalgar Square (a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson)

Whitehall (a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices)

Lombard Street (a street in central London containing many of the major London banks)

Harley Street (a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located)

Fleet Street (a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated)

Old Bailey (the central criminal court in London)

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)

Big Ben (clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London)

Meronyms (members of "London"):

Londoner (a native or resident of London)

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

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Derivation:

Londoner (a native or resident of London)

Sense 2

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))

 Context examples 

“Ha! the stars are out and the wind has fallen. What do you say to a ramble through London?”

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

My name is Briggs, a solicitor of — Street, London.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"What can you hope for? I'm fifteen stone, as hard as nails, and play center three-quarter every Saturday for the London Irish. I'm not the man—"

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This was a successful defense of his 2017 title won in London, United Kingdom.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)

A research team of King’s College London followed more than 600 infants beginning at 4 to 11 months of age.

(Peanut Consumption in Infancy Lowers Peanut Allergy, NIH)

Our journey was somewhat farther than from London to St. Alban’s.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Researchers from University College London (UCL) looked at 111,370 participants from the UK Biobank study who had eye tests from 2006 to 2010.

(Air Pollution Can Trigger Glaucoma, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Dare say you heard the carriage, sir, while you were at dinner; and going on now for Crewkherne, in his way to Bath and London.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He is a very—a very pleasing young man himself, and I cannot help being rather concerned at not seeing him again before I go to London, as will now undoubtedly be the case.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)