TOWER OF LONDON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tower of London mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOWER OF LONDON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

fort; fortress (a fortified defensive structure)

Holonyms ("Tower 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 

We varied the legal character of these proceedings by going to see some perspiring Wax-work, in Fleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and by visiting Miss Linwood's Exhibition, which I remember as a Mausoleum of needlework, favourable to self-examination and repentance; and by inspecting the Tower of London; and going to the top of St. Paul's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)