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Manchester vs London - What's the difference?

manchester | london |

As a noun manchester

is (australia|new zealand|uncountable) household linen.

As a proper noun london is

the capital city of the united kingdom and of england, situated near the mouth of the river thames in southeast england, with a metropolitan population of more than 12,000,000.

manchester

English

(wikipedia Manchester)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Major city in the north-west of England.
  • Any of several towns and cities in the United States of America.
  • A town in Bolivia
  • A community in Nova Scotia, Canada
  • A settlement in Suriname

    • Related terms

    * Mancunian

    Derived terms

    * Greater Manchester * Manchester Ship Canal

    References

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    london

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The capital city of the United Kingdom and of England, situated near the mouth of the River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 12,000,000.
  • A city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a population of approximately 300,000.
  • A city in Ohio, USA, with a population of approximately 9,000.
  • A city in Kentucky, USA, with a population of approximately 8,000.
  • A city in Arkansas, USA, with a population of approximately 900.
  • A city in California, USA, with a population of approximately 1,800.
  • A community in Texas, USA, with a population of approximately 180.
  • A community in West Virginia, USA.
  • A settlement in Kiribati, on Easter Island.
  • for someone from London.
  • (rare) transferred from the place name.
  • * 2012 (Louise Erdrich), The Round House , Corsair (2013), ISBN 9781472108166, page 178:
    • Sonja made me promise I would go to college. She said she'd wanted her daughter, Murphy, to go. She'd named her baby Murphy because it could never be a stripper name. But her daughter had changed her name to London .

    Derived terms

    * City of London * Greater London * London broil * Londoner * Londonish * Londonism * Londonistan * Londonize * London Bridge * London moment * London paste * London plane * Londonphile * London pride * London rocket * London Underground * London weighting * Multicultural London English * New London * Tower of London

    See also

    * the City * Cockney

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    References

    * 2003, A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place-Names , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198527586 English surnames ----