LOMBARD

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• LOMBARD (noun)
  The noun LOMBARD has 1 sense:

1. a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century

  Familiarity information: LOMBARD used as a noun is very rare.

• LOMBARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Langobard; Lombard

Hypernyms ("Lombard" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

 Context examples 

I am not a Lombard, sire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At last I saw a vacancy at Mawson & Williams’, the great stockbroking firm in Lombard Street.

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

Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race; that we were proud; that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)