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What is another word for Londoners?

Pronunciation: [lˈʌndənəz] (IPA)

Londoners are people who reside in the capital city of England, however there are several synonyms that can be used to describe this population. Some alternatives to the word 'Londoner' include 'Cockneys', which generally refers to people from the East End of London, 'Londonders', which has a similar ring to 'Londoner', 'Londonites', which is a modern term used to describe residents of the city and 'Londonistani', which refers to London citizens of Pakistani origin. Additionally, popular slang terms for Londoners include 'Londies' and 'Londonistas'. Each of these words are used interchangeably, depending on the speakers tone and intended usage.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Londoners

These monuments were erected to persons from all counties in the three kingdoms, and from all the big towns, those to Londoners being most numerous.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It happened not long after that "La Belle Sauvage," as the Londoners sometimes called Pocahontas, and Rolfe were being entertained at a fair country seat.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
"Oh, you're very clever, you Londoners.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell

Famous quotes with Londoners

  • Stow informs us, that the young Londoners, on holidays, after the evening prayer, were permitted to exercise themselves with their wasters and bucklers before their masters' doors…The bear-gardens were the usual places appropriated by the masters of defence for public trials of skill. These exhibitions were outrageous to humanity, and only fitted for the amusement of ferocious minds; it is therefore astonishing that they should have been frequented by females; for, who could imagine that the slicing of the flesh from a man's cheek, the scarifying of his arms, or laying the calves of his legs upon his heels, were spectacles calculated to delight the fair sex, or sufficiently attractive to command their presence.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Training of bulls, bears, horses, and other animals, for the purpose of baiting them with dogs, was certainly practiced by the jugglers; and this vicious pastime has the sanction of high antiquity. Fitz-Stephen, who lived in the reign of Henry II, tells us that, in the forenoon of every holiday, during the winter season, the young Londoners were amused with boars opposed to each other in battle, or with bulls and full-grown bears baited by dogs. This author makes no mention of horses; and I believe the baiting of these noble and useful animals was never a general practice: it was, however, no doubt, partially performed…Asses also were treated with the same inhumanity; but probably the poor beasts did not afford sufficient sport in the tormenting, and therefore were seldom brought forward as the objects of this barbarous diversion.
    Joseph Strutt
  • These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler’s invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city … Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.
    Winston Churchill
  • And I can tell you that your courage and the sheer exuberant nerve with which you stuck it to your enemies, especially in New Labour, you have thereby earned the thanks and admiration of millions of Londoners, even if you think that they have a funny way of showing it today.
    Boris Johnson

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