CITY OF LONDON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does City of London mean? 

• CITY OF LONDON (noun)
  The noun CITY OF LONDON has 1 sense:

1. the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London

  Familiarity information: CITY OF LONDON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITY OF LONDON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

City of London; the City

Instance hypernyms:

center; centre; eye; heart; middle (an area that is approximately central within some larger region)

Holonyms ("City of London" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

 Context examples 

Here, in the City of London, was the taproot from which Empire and wealth and so many other fine leaves had sprouted.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)