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Edgware
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English
Pronunciation
en /ˈɛd͡ʒwɛə(ɹ)/ UK
en LL-Q7979-Soundguys-Edgware.wav UK
Proper noun
en large suburb in the lbor/Barnet co/Greater London cc/England OS grid ref TQ1992.
en w:Hadley Freeman Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/09/paul-rudd-ant-man-hollywoods-nice-guy-english-parents-kansas 2015-07-09 I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke. https://web.archive.org/web/20180301050956/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jul/09/paul-rudd-ant-man-hollywoods-nice-guy-english-parents-kansas
Usage notes
Edgware Road is a main road which runs from Marble Arch in Central London out towards Edgware. It forms the southern end of the A5 and has two London Underground stations named after it.
Derived terms
en Wimbleware
See also
en edgeware
Anagrams
en adeegrw garweed ragweed wagered