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Belgravia

UK/bɛlˈɡɹeɪ.vi.ə/

Belgravia proper noun: an area in the City of Westminster, central London, noted for being one of the wealthiest districts in the world (OS grid ref TQ2879).

Proper noun

Belgravia

  1. An area in the City of Westminster, central London, noted for being one of the wealthiest districts in the world (OS grid ref TQ2879).
    • Not but that Edith was very thoroughly and properly in love; still she would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia, to all the picturesqueness of the life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu.1854, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter I, in North and South
    • What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. Giles's, visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia? What more stirring than the contrasts of society?1858, William Makepeace Thackeray, A History of Pendennis: His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy, Volume 1, Preface
  2. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
  3. A neighbourhood in south-west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  4. A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa.
  5. A suburb in north Harare, Zimbabwe.

Origin of Belgravia

After Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, whose title was Viscount Belgrave when the area was developed in the 1820s, thus from Belgrave + -ia. The village of Belgrave, Cheshire is close to the Grosvenor family's main country seat.

Words that rhyme with Belgravia

Questions about Belgravia

What does Belgravia mean?
Belgravia means an area in the City of Westminster, central London, noted for being one of the wealthiest districts in the world (OS grid ref TQ2879).
What part of speech is Belgravia?
Belgravia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Belgravia?
Belgravia is pronounced /bɛlˈɡɹeɪ.vi.ə/ (UK).

Words near Belgravia in the dictionary

  1. Belgradians
  2. Belgrave
  3. Belgrave Heights
  4. Belgrave South
  5. Belgraves
  6. Belgravia
  7. Belgravian
  8. Belgravians
  9. Belgrove
  10. belhambra
  11. Belhelvie

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