Meanings
- A street, and the money and capital market of London.
Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London
1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, page 3122 more examples
Lombard Street is thus a perpetual agent between the two great divisions of England
1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market... and it is no wonder that there were active relations between the bourse in Bruges and Lombard Street in London.
1963, Raymond de Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494, page 317 - A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.
Origin
A London street, the site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 倫巴第街 /伦巴第街
- 倫巴第街 /伦巴第街 (Lúnbādì Jiē)money and capital market of London
Finnish Lombard Street
- Lombard Streetmoney and capital market of London
French Lombard Street
- Lombard Streetmoney and capital market of London
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Lombard Street. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lombard%20Street
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