Belgravia

American

[bel-grey-vee-uh] / bɛlˈgreɪ vi ə /

noun

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

Belgravia British

/ bɛlˈɡreɪvɪə /

noun

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

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Belgravian

adjective

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She recently sold her Belgravia flat, which she purchased for £4.2m.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

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.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

The Life Guards of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment were on their daily morning exercise ride in Belgravia when their horses were spooked by construction rubble being dropped through a plastic tunnel from height.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2024

They were on an exercise with five other horses and six soldiers from the Household Cavalry in Belgravia when it happened on 24 April.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

To be seen at a Belgravia dinner party.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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