tower of london

1. 1.

   a fortress in London on the Thames; used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels

   Broaderfortress

   Part ofLondon

Questions about tower of london

What does tower of london mean?

tower of london means "a fortress in London on the Thames; used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels".

Is tower of london a common word?

tower of london is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.