LOMBARD STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lombard Street mean? 

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

1. a street in central London containing many of the major London banks

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOMBARD STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A street in central London containing many of the major London banks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Holonyms ("Lombard Street" 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 

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)