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Wimbledon

[ wim-buhl-duhn ]

noun

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


Wimbledon

/ ˈwɪmbəldən /

noun

  1. 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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

Then one day, without warning, she brought it up against me that I had "given her the slip" that afternoon on Wimbledon Common.

Mr. Lewes is gone to see Mrs. Congreve and carry his net to the Wimbledon ponds.

He was a famous lawn tennis player and came over to London for the tournament at Wimbledon.

Since volunteering had come up, he had become a captain of Volunteers, and had won prizes with his rifle at Wimbledon.

It is not exactly usual for ladies residing at Wimbledon to receive consignments of orchids.

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