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London Town

London Town proper noun: london, predominantly the central fifteen or so boroughs.

Proper noun

London Town

  1. (London, UK, poetic, traditional) London, predominantly the central fifteen or so boroughs.
    • There was a man from London Town, Who was so very wise, He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes.1906, Sarah Stone Williams, The Man from London Town, page 5
    • The last other black face she'd seen had been at a tournament in London Town where her lord's son had fought.2012, Richard Monaco, Lost Years: The Quest for Avalon

Examples of London Town in a sentence

  • To be in London Town on a Sunday morning is to be awakened by the music of many church bells, which provides an extraordinary experience in itself.2014, George M. Goritz, Shakespeare, Wall Street and My Arabian Nights Adventures, page 36:
  • So it went on for a long time—hunger and poverty for poor Dick, with nothing but his dreams of London Town to give him happiness.2014, E. Nesbit, Fairy Tales for Young Readers:

Origin of London Town

From London + town. Compare Old English Lundentūn (literally “London town”).

Questions about London Town

What does London Town mean?
London Town means london, predominantly the central fifteen or so boroughs.
How do you use London Town in a sentence?
To be in London Town on a Sunday morning is to be awakened by the music of many church bells, which provides an extraordinary experience in itself.
What part of speech is London Town?
London Town is a proper noun.

Words near London Town in the dictionary

  1. London sinks
  2. London smoke
  3. London stock
  4. London stocks
  5. London to a brick
  6. London Town
  7. London tuft
  8. London Underground
  9. London Underground mosquito
  10. London weighting
  11. London weightings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: London Town (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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