Etymology

Londoner

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Today it means: A person from, or an inhabitant of, London. Full definition →

Middle English Londonere ← Old English Lundenware
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  1. Old English · inherited fromLundenware
  2. Middle English · inherited fromLondonere
  3. English todayLondoner

From Middle English Londonere, from Old English Lundenware, Lundenwaran pl (“Londoners”), from Lunden (“London”) + -ware pl (suffix denoting inhabitants), equivalent to London + -er (“inhabitant of”, demonymic suffix).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.