Wimbledon

[ wim-buh l-duh n ]

/ ˈwɪm bəl dən /

noun

a former borough, now part of Merton, in SE England, near London: international tennis tournaments.

Example sentences from the Web for wimbledon

It was a very rainy summer—the summer Arthur Ashe won Wimbledon against Jimmy Connors, which I watched in the pub.

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He poured this into three ornate chalices that looked like Turkish knock-offs of the Wimbledon Cup.

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He had just resuscitated his career by dumping Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final.

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They are said to have got engaged shortly before the Wimbledon tennis tournament.

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“Yeah, maybe we can have a little bit of a showdown,” Williams joked at Wimbledon.

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The gravel of Kensington and Wimbledon is esteemed the finest in the world.

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The last sound of their multitudinous voices has died in the distance, and Wimbledon is to us as if it had never been.

Eventide |Effie Afton
The rules drawn up by the Wimbledon Club in 1883 still obtain in all essentials.

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That dinner at Wimbledon—I meant it to last me all night like other dinners.

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Its having been publicly proved that Mrs. Carnaby was then far away from Wimbledon did not tend to shake Alma's conviction.

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British Dictionary definitions for wimbledon

Wimbledon

/ (ˈwɪmbəldən) /

noun

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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