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kensington
/ˈkɛnzɪŋtən/
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What does kensington mean?
proper noun
- An affluent area of west London in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London; South Kensington contains several major museums.
- A suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3690).
- A town in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
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proper noun
- A census-designated place in San Diego County, California.
- A census-designated place in Contra Costa County, California.
- A census-designated place in the town of Berlin, Hartford County, Connecticut.
- An unincorporated community in Walker County, Georgia.
- A neighbourhood of Chicago, Illinois.
- A minor city in Smith County, Kansas.
- A town in Montgomery County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan.
- A minor city in Douglas County, Minnesota.
- A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
- A village in Nassau County, Long Island, New York.
- A neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
- An unincorporated community in Hanover Township, Columbiana County, Ohio.
- A neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- A suburb of Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand.
- A suburb of Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand.
- A suburb of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand.
- A suburb of Sydney in the Randwick council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
noun
- (dated) A sewing circle for women.
- (dated) Alternative letter-case form of kensington (“sewing circle”).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɛnzɪŋtən/
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The terrible disasters at the Ealing and South Kensington laboratories have disinclined analysts for further investigations upon the latter.
I often used to meet, when I was curate at Kensington, families drifting into London along the Hammersmith Road.
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What a melancholy picture is there of an old monarch at Kensington, who has lived to see such inglorious and fatal days!
THERE is somewhere in Brompton or Kensington an interminable avenue of tall houses, rich but largely empty, that looks like a terrace of tombs.
The same child was to be soothed at night after a weeping dream that a skater had been drowned in the Kensington Round Pond.