English Explanatory Dictionary

Ludgate Hill

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The hill on which St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is built.
  2. A street in the City of London that runs from St Paul's Churchyard, joining Fleet Street at Ludgate Circus. There was once a railway station named Ludgate Hill.

Pronunciation

/lʌdɡeɪt hɪl/

Word forms

Ludgate Hill

Etymology

Despite the claim by the Norman-Welsh Geoffry of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae that Ludgate was so called for having been built by the ancient British king called Lud—a manifestation of the god Nodens—the name is believed by later writers to be derived from "flood gate" or "Fleet gate", from "ludgeat", meaning "back gate" or "postern", or from the Old English term "hlid-geat", meaning "postern" or "swing gate".

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