Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A native or citizen of London in England.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A native or inhabitant of London.

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  • noun A person from, or an inhabitant of, London.

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  • noun a native or resident of London

Etymologies

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London +‎ -er

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Examples

  • So, one year on, and this Londoner is feeling more than a little reflective.

    The One Where It's One Year Later kisobel 2006

  • Here in Britain, closed-circuit cameras are everywhere: the average Londoner is said to be photographed some 300 times a day.

    Boing Boing: October 2, 2005 - October 8, 2005 Archives 2005

  • I have read that the average Londoner is captured 300 times a day via CCTVs.

    Just asking « BuzzMachine 2005

  • For example, the most bitter insult one can offer to a Londoner is ‘bastard’which, taken for what it means, is hardly an insult at all.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • Chris, I realise that London isn't your neck of the woods, but thelondonpaper sic is News Group's evening free sheet, and The Londoner is the City Hall monthly free sheet.

    Iain Dale: In the Bored Room, Encourages Gaffe 2008

  • For a long time the Londoner has been a lone fighter on the continental battlefield.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • For a long time the Londoner has been a lone fighter on the continental battlefield.

    Fascist Fellow Traveller Fraud: MEP Jail on Full Pay 2007

  • For a long time the Londoner has been a lone fighter on the continental battlefield.

    Archive 2007-09-02 2007

  • For here, in this Italian country, and in the Eternal City, the man whom I had so far mainly known as a Londoner was far more at home than I; and I realized, perhaps more fully than ever before, the extraordinary range of his knowledge and sympathies.

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

  • It is a commonplace that the Londoner is the most provincial of all Englishmen, living in sublime ignorance of what is thought and done in the rest of the kingdom; and in similar wise, when a man sneers at the _bourgeoisie_, I never think of looking up his pedigree in Debrett.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

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