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Ludgate Hill

UK/lʌdɡeɪt hɪl/

Ludgate Hill proper noun: the hill on which St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is built.

Proper noun

Ludgate Hill

  1. The hill on which St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is built.
    • As for the other syllable of London’s name, the “ Dun ” or “ Strong Place,” was undoubtedly on the hill called Ludgate Hill, on which St. Paul’s Cathedral stands to-day.1918, Burton Holmes, Burton Holmes Travelogues: London. Paris. Berlin, The Travelogue Bureau, page 11
  2. A street in the City of London that runs from St Paul's Churchyard, joining Fleet Street at Ludgate Circus. There was once a railway station named Ludgate Hill.
    • It belonged to that incredible trio, St. Paul's, Ludgate Hill and Holborn, so close together that a long train could almost be in all three stations at once. Ludgate Hill has gone into the dusty limbo of forgotten stations, but its subterranean brassy bar long survived in the arches below, [...].1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356

Origin of Ludgate Hill

Despite the claim by the Norman-Welsh Geoffry of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae that Ludgate was so called for having been built by the ancient British king called Lud—a manifestation of the god Nodens—the name is believed by later writers to be derived from "flood gate" or "Fleet gate", from "ludgeat", meaning "back gate" or "postern", or from the Old English term "hlid-geat", meaning "postern" or "swing gate".

Questions about Ludgate Hill

What does Ludgate Hill mean?
Ludgate Hill means the hill on which St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is built.
What part of speech is Ludgate Hill?
Ludgate Hill is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Ludgate Hill?
Ludgate Hill is pronounced /lʌdɡeɪt hɪl/ (UK).

Words near Ludgate Hill in the dictionary

  1. Ludewigs
  2. Ludești
  3. Ludford
  4. Ludfordian
  5. Ludgate
  6. Ludgate Hill
  7. Ludgershall
  8. Ludgrove
  9. Ludgroves
  10. Ludgrovian
  11. Ludgrovians

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