LONDONとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 Londoun, from 古期英語 Lunden, from Proto-Celtic via Latin Londinium – see for details. Doublet of Londinium.

発音

• enPR: lŭn'dən, IPA: /ˈlʌn.dən/
• (dialectal) enPR: lŭ'nən, IPA: /ˈlʌ.nən/
• (Northern England) IPA: /ˈlʊn.dən/
• 韻: -ʌndən

固有名詞

London (countable and uncountable, plural Londons)

1. The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.
   • 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:

     An eccentric city with a live-and-let-live vibe, London is a place where people can be free to be themselves, find the communities to which they belong and write whatever they want. There are, in a sense, many Londons for writers to explore.

2. A former administrative county of England, created in 1889 from parts of Kent, Middlesex and Surrey, and merged into Greater London in 1965.
3. (metonymic) The government of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Westminster.
4. A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
5. A small agricultural village in the commune of Savigny-sur-Seille, Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, France.
6. A village in Kiritimati atoll, Kiribati.
   • 1993, Derek A. Scott, “A DIRECTORY OF WETLANDS IN OCEANIA”, in Wetlands International‎, archived from the original on 30 August 2018, page 188:

     The principal economic activity is copra production, the Government copra plantation covering some 5,170 ha. The population in 1989 was estimated at 2,000, the great majority of whom live in London, Banana and Poland villages in the west.

7. An urban neighborhood of the city of Belgrade, Serbia.
8. Several places in the United States:
   1. A small city in Pope County, Arkansas, with a population of approximately 900.
   2. A census-designated place in Tulare County, California, with a population of approximately 1,800.
   3. An unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, Indiana.
   4. A city, the county seat of Laurel County, Kentucky, with a population of approximately 8,000.
   5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Monroe County, Michigan.
   6. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
   7. A city, the county seat of Madison County, Ohio, with a population of approximately 9,000.
   8. An unincorporated community in Kimble County, Texas, with a population of approximately 180.
   9. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
   10. An unincorporated community in Dane County and Jefferson County, Wisconsin.
9. A habitational surname for someone from London.
10. (rare) A unisex given name transferred from the place name.
    • 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House, Corsair, published 2013, →ISBN, page 178:

      Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London.

同意語

• (in the United Kingdom): the Big Smoke, Eine, the Great Wen, Londongrad, Londonistan, Moscow-on-Thames, Rum-ville, the Smoke

派生語

派生した語

• → Chinese: 倫敦 / 伦敦 (Lúndūn)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: London

参考

• the City
• Cockney
• Londonshire

参照

• Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎, volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 7.72, page 222.
• 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
• Report on the Kiribati 2015 Census of Population and Housing

Further reading

• “London”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “London”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “London”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “London”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• London in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• London in the Encyclopædia Britannica (12th edition, 1922)

アナグラム

• Donlon, nonold