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London-by-the-sea

London-by-the-sea is the alternative form of London-on-sea.

Meaning of London-on-sea

Proper noun

London-on-sea

  1. (humorous) Nickname for Brighton: a coastal city in East Sussex, England.
    • Forget all those London-on-sea quips; Brighton's character is the complete opposite of the Smoke's. London is less a city than a repository of ambition, and living over the shop, as it were, makes people soul-sick after a while.1999 August 28, Julie Burchill, “Brighton rocks”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Questions about London-by-the-sea

What is London-by-the-sea the alternative form of?
London-by-the-sea is the alternative form of London-on-sea.

Words near London-by-the-sea in the dictionary

  1. London tuft
  2. London Underground
  3. London Underground mosquito
  4. London weighting
  5. London weightings
  6. London-by-the-sea
  7. London-centric
  8. London-on-sea
  9. Londonderry
  10. Londoner
  11. Londoners

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Adapted from Wiktionary: London-by-the-sea (page history and authors); London-on-sea (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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