Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native or citizen of London in England.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or inhabitant of London.
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- noun A person from, or an inhabitant of,
London .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a native or resident of London
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, one year on, and this Londoner is feeling more than a little reflective.
The One Where It's One Year Later kisobel 2006
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Here in Britain, closed-circuit cameras are everywhere: the average Londoner is said to be photographed some 300 times a day.
Boing Boing: October 2, 2005 - October 8, 2005 Archives 2005
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I have read that the average Londoner is captured 300 times a day via CCTVs.
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For example, the most bitter insult one can offer to a Londoner is bastardwhich, taken for what it means, is hardly an insult at all.
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Chris, I realise that London isn't your neck of the woods, but thelondonpaper sic is News Group's evening free sheet, and The Londoner is the City Hall monthly free sheet.
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For a long time the Londoner has been a lone fighter on the continental battlefield.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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For a long time the Londoner has been a lone fighter on the continental battlefield.
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For a long time the Londoner has been a lone fighter on the continental battlefield.
Archive 2007-09-02 2007
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For here, in this Italian country, and in the Eternal City, the man whom I had so far mainly known as a Londoner was far more at home than I; and I realized, perhaps more fully than ever before, the extraordinary range of his knowledge and sympathies.
Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918
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It is a commonplace that the Londoner is the most provincial of all Englishmen, living in sublime ignorance of what is thought and done in the rest of the kingdom; and in similar wise, when a man sneers at the _bourgeoisie_, I never think of looking up his pedigree in Debrett.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895
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