Belgravia

[bel-grey-vee-uh]

noun

1. a fashionable district in London, England, adjoining Hyde Park.

Belgravia

/ bɛlˈɡreɪvɪə /

noun

1. a fashionable residential district of W central London, around Belgrave Square

Other Word Forms

• Belgravian adjective

Example Sentences

Quaker, 15, was one of five Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment horses spooked when rubble was dropped through a plastic tunnel while they were on an exercise in Belgravia on 24 April last year.

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But for Belgravia's gilded set, being told to leave the rarefied streets and return to a supposedly less desirable part of the English capital cuts deep.

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Mckenzie Dicicco, 22, of Belgravia Gardens, Middlesbrough, who has played at Thornaby, Northallerton and Pickering football clubs, appeared at Leeds Crown Court earlier charged with murder and affray.

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As private investigator and trailblazing psychologist Maisie Dobbs tries to help a small group of youth and a badly wounded soldier who are sheltering illegally in the Belgravia mansion of a friend, the various secrets the squatters harbor have implications that bring Scotland Yard calling and involve Dobbs’ deceased first husband.

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In March, the High Court froze just over £14m worth of Mr Tripathi’s personal assets – including a townhouse in Belgravia.

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