Definition of Greater London

1. Noun. The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center.


Definition of Greater London

1. Proper noun. An administrative area combining the City of London, the City of Westminster and 31 other London boroughs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Greater London

Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Great Turk
Great Victoria Desert
Great Wall
Great Wall of China
Great War
Great White North
Great White Way
Great Yarmouth
Great Year
Greater Antillean
Greater Antilles
Greater Armenia
Greater China
Greater Hebrides
Greater London (current term)
Greater Manchester
Greater New Orleans Bridge
Greater New York
Greater Poland
Greater Sunda Islands
Grecian
Grecian knot
Grecian knots
Grecianness
Grecians
Grecism
Grecisms
Grecized
Greco

Literary usage of Greater London

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"This body, the Greater London Council, would be a planning authority and a traffic authority for the Greater London area and would be the highway authority ..."

2. The Lancet (1898)
"The area of the county of London is contained within the larger area of " Greater London," which is the name given by the Registrar-General to the area ..."

3. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"Between 1805 and 1855 the population of greater London Growth of swelled from a million to two millions and a half ; 5 and be- London ; tween 1855 and 1891 ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1884)
"GP Putnam's Sons, Wett 23d St. 1884. f Greater London; a narrative of its history, its people, and its places. 87 Edward Walford, MA Illustrated with ..."

5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1884)
"Greater London! is the title of a very charming illustrated book published by ... GP Putnam's Sons, Weil 23d St. 1884. f Greater London; a narrative of its ..."

6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The population of Greater London by the census of 1901 was ... of certain census returns for Greater London and its chief component parts, namely, the City, ..."

7. Municipal Ownership in Great Britain by Hugo Richard Meyer (1906)
"CHAPTER X Greater London* SHORTLY after the Tramways Act, 1870, was passed, companies applied for charters for tramways in 93 miles of street of ..."

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