Bloomsbury
pronunciation
How to pronounce Bloomsbury in British English:
UK [ˈblu:mzˌberi:, -bəri:, -bri:]
How to pronounce Bloomsbury in American English:
US [ˈblumzˌbɛri, -bəri, -bri]
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- Noun:
- a city district of central London laid out in garden squares
Word Origin
- Bloomsbury
- 1910, in reference to the set of Bohemian writers, artists, and intellectuals (including E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes) centered on Lytton Strachey; so called from the London neighborhood where several lived and worked.Women in love with buggers and buggers in love with womanizers, I don't know what the world is coming to. [Lytton Strachey] The place name is recorded 1291 as Blemondesberi "manor held by the Blemond family," from Blémont in France. It was laid out for housing in 17c., fashionable from 18c.
Example
- 1. Will self 's novel umbrella will be published by bloomsbury in august
- 2. To be published in america in february by bloomsbury ; $ 35 .
- 3. Bloomsbury group is an elite intellectual group in london of modern great britain .
- 4. The same was true , a century later , of the bloomsbury group , two of whose members , woolf and forster , produced novel upon novel about friendship .
- 5. Between them , bloomsbury and scholastic printed a first edition of more than four million copies .