WIMBLEDON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wimbledon mean? 

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

1. a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIMBLEDON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

suburb; suburban area; suburbia (a residential district located on the outskirts of a city)

Holonyms ("Wimbledon" 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 

It was ’e that beat Noah James, the Guardsman, and was afterwards nearly killed by Jem Belcher, in the ’ollow of Wimbledon Common by Abbershaw’s gibbet.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)