london

Other forms of london

plural

londons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about london

What does london mean?

london means "the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in london?

london has 2 syllables: lon-don. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /ˈlʌndən/.

What is another word for london?

Close synonyms include Greater London, British capital, capital of the United Kingdom, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is london a common word?

london is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.