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Lombard Street

Lombard Street proper noun: a street, and the money and capital market of London.

Proper noun

Lombard Street

  1. A street, and the money and capital market of London.
    • Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, page 312
    • Lombard Street is thus a perpetual agent between the two great divisions of England1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market
  2. A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.

Origin of Lombard Street

A London street, the site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century.

Words formed from Lombard Street

Questions about Lombard Street

What does Lombard Street mean?
Lombard Street means a street, and the money and capital market of London.
What part of speech is Lombard Street?
Lombard Street is a proper noun.

Words near Lombard Street in the dictionary

  1. Lombard rate
  2. Lombard rates
  3. Lombard reflex
  4. Lombard rhythm
  5. Lombard rhythms
  6. Lombard Street
  7. Lombard Street to a China orange
  8. Lombardesque
  9. Lombardi
  10. Lombardi-esque
  11. Lombardian

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