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Wimbledon

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Wim·ble·don  (wmbl-dn)
A district of southern Greater London, England. It is the site of a major annual tennis tournament.
Wimbledon [ˈwɪmbəldən]
n
(Placename) (Individual Sports & Recreations / Tennis) part of the Greater London borough of Merton: headquarters of the All England Lawn Tennis Club since 1877 and the site of the annual international tennis championships
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Noun1.Wimbledon - a suburb of London and the headquarters of the club where annual international tennis championships are played on grass courts
British capital, capital of the United Kingdom, Greater London, London - the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center


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Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all over the South-Western "lung"--Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth--at unnaturally early hours; but not a soul had anything more than vague hearsay to tell of.
The War Of The Worlds by Wells, H.G. View in context
`As the hush of evening crept over the world and we proceeded over the hill crest towards Wimbledon, Weena grew tired and wanted to return to the house of grey stone.
The Time Machine by Wells, H.G. View in context
Flambeau had been missed at Harwich; and if he was in London at all, he might be anything from a tall tramp on Wimbledon Common to a tall toast-master at the Hotel Metropole.
The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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