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wimbledon
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
district of South London, Old English Wunemannedune (10c.), probably "Wynnman's hill," from proper name *Wynnman. The -m- is intrusive; the -n- to -l- substitution was common in Anglo-French. Used metonymically from 1895 for the lawn tennis championships played annually there.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 126
Land area (2000): 0.462576 sq. miles (1.198066 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.462576 sq. miles (1.198066 sq. km)
FIPS code: 86620
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.170662 N, 98.459941 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58492
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Wimbledon
Wikipedia
Wimbledon usually refers to:
- Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London
- The Championships, Wimbledon, a lawn tennis tournament, one of the four Grand Slam championships
It may also refer to:
Wimbledon is a 2004 British romantic comedy film directed by Richard Loncraine. The film centers on a washed-up tennis pro named Peter Colt (played by Paul Bettany) and an up-and-coming tennis star named Lizzie Bradbury (played by Kirsten Dunst) during the Wimbledon Championships.
The film is dedicated to Mark McCormack, who died on 16 May 2003 after suffering cardiac arrest four months earlier.
Wimbledon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Stephen Hammond, a Conservative.
- redirect Wimbledon, London
Wimbledon is an ecclesiastical parish and part of the Rural Deanery of Merton and Southwark Diocese in Wimbledon, London, UK. There are five churches, four of which are part of the Wimbledon Team Ministry.
Usage examples of "wimbledon".
She had asked him particularly when he should be back that night He named the train, which reached Wimbledon a little after ten.
Now Howard, trying to ease the tension, asked Baker when he would be moving from Wimbledon into the new flat he was buying in north-west London.
The mention of Wimbledon reminded Wexford of Verity Bate who had said that her parents and, at one time, the Sampsons had lived in that suburb.
Dover in plastic bags or key rings with Wimbledon locker-room numbers.
Now she looked especially bad, with her frozen face and swollen lips, and he didn't intend to open his eyes or interrupt his favorite dream of being a ball boy at Wimbledon.
Sergeant Lewis sat back helplessly in his chair, feeling like a man just presented with the Wimbledon Challenge Cup after losing the last point of the tennis match.
The Honorable Geoffrey Niles, Wimbledon, Surrey, United Kingdom, Earth.
That was the moment when the committee at the All England Tennis Club, sitting in the secretary's office at Wimbledon, had gathered to discuss a special problem.
She moved in with some guy from Wimbledon she met at Towering Inferno.