Meaning of Belgravia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An area in the City of Westminster, central London, noted for being one of the wealthiest districts in the world (OS grid ref TQ2879).
2. Other places named after Belgravia in London:
3. A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
4. A neighbourhood in south-west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
5. A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa.
6. A suburb in north Harare, Zimbabwe.

Examples

“Not but that Edith was very thoroughly and properly in love; still she would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia, to all the picturesqueness of the life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu.”

“What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. Giles's, visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia? What more stirring than the contrasts of society?”

“[…] Browning seemed rather in place, as a middle-aged gentlemanly English Pippa Passes; while afterwards, in the light of Belgravia dinner-tables, he never made part of his background except by effacement.”

“Tuppence's hostel was situated in what was charitably called Southern Belgravia.”

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