Londoner

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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 they are getting better, and in the end I shall work them down to an allowance of thirty seconds."

  2. 2
    a native or resident of London wordnet

Synonyms

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londonite

Example

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"She was a born and bred Londoner."

Etymology

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).

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