Belgravia

English Etymology After Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, whose title was Viscount Belgrave when the area was developed in the 1820s, thus from en Belgrave -ia. The village of Belgrave, Cheshire is close to the Grosvenor family's main country seat. Pronunciation en /bɛlˈɡɹeɪ.vi.ə/ UK en eɪviə 4 Proper noun en area in the city:Pref/Westminster central city/London, noted for being one of the wealthiest districts in the world OS grid ref TQ2879. en 1854 w:Elizabeth Gaskell North and South I Not but that Edith was very thoroughly and properly in love; still she would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia, to all the picturesqueness of the life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu. en 1858 w:William Makepeace Thackeray http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34922/34922-h/34922-h.htm A History of Pendennis: His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy Volume 1, Preface What more exciting than a ruffian (with many admirable virtues) in St. Giles's, visited constantly by a young lady from Belgravia? What more stirring than the contrasts of society? en 1918 w:Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams 6 Browning seemed rather in place, as a middle-aged gentlemanly English Pippa Passes; while afterwards, in the light of Belgravia dinner-tables, he never made part of his background except by effacement. en 1922 w:Agatha Christie The Secret Adversary 1 Tuppence's hostel was situated in what was charitably called Southern Belgravia. Other places named after Belgravia in London: en locality in the carea/Cabonne central s/New South Wales c/Australia. en neighbourhood in south-west city/Edmonton p/Alberta c/Canada. en suburb city/Johannesburg p:suf/Gauteng c/South Africa. en suburb in north city/Harare c/Zimbabwe. Related terms en Belgravian en eponyms