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BRITISH CAPITAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
Synonyms:
British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "British capital"):
Pall Mall (a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs)
City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)
West End (the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas)
Wembley (a southeastern part of Greater London that is the site of the English national soccer stadium)
Soho (a city district of central London now noted for restaurants and nightclubs)
Bloomsbury (a city district of central London laid out in garden squares)
Greenwich (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time)
City of London; the City (the part of London situated within the ancient boundaries; the commercial and financial center of London)
Wimbledon (a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts)
Trafalgar Square (a square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson)
Whitehall (a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices)
Lombard Street (a street in central London containing many of the major London banks)
Harley Street (a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located)
Fleet Street (a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated)
Old Bailey (the central criminal court in London)
Tower of London (a fortress in London on the Thames; used as a palace and a state prison and now as a museum containing the crown jewels)
Newgate (a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902)
Big Ben (clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London)
Meronyms (members of "British capital"):
Londoner (a native or resident of London)
Holonyms ("British capital" is a part of...):
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
