Lombard

[ lom-bahrd, -berd, luhm- ]

/ ˈlɒm bɑrd, -bərd, ˈlʌm- /

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noun

a native or inhabitant of Lombardy.

a member of an ancient Germanic tribe that settled in N Italy.

a banker or moneylender.

adjective

Also Lom·bar·dic . of or relating to the Lombards or Lombardy.

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Other definitions for Lombard (2 of 2)

Lombard²

[ lom-bahrd, -berd, luhm- ]

/ ˈlɒm bɑrd, -bərd, ˈlʌm- /

noun

Carole Jane Alice Peters, 1909?–42, U.S. film actress.

Peter Petrus Lombardus, c1100–64?, Italian theologian: bishop of Paris 1159–64?.

a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.

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How to use Lombard in a sentence

David O. Russell: I immediately think of Carole Lombard with [Lawrence].
‘American Hustle’ Cast On Hairdos, the Jennifer Lawrence & Amy Adams Kiss, and More|Marlow Stern|December 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And then there is Carole Lombard, ravishing, sexy, happy, and glorious in her gowns.
The Star-Crossed Hamlet|David Thomson|October 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST
Below, his definitive appraisal of the Jack Benny/Carole Lombard masterpiece “To Be Or Not To Be.”
The Star-Crossed Hamlet|David Thomson|October 10, 2008|DAILY BEAST
We have seen enough elsewhere of the multiplication of Commentaries on the Sentences of the Lombard and other scholastic works.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor

War and Lombard Street treats only with the beginning of a very big subject.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
These problems will exercise all the ingenuity and strength that Lombard Street can muster.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
Lombard Street has thus shown that it has fully learnt the only lesson that the external side of the crisis had to teach it.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
And he walked into Lombard Street with the feelings of a culprit walking up the scaffold to his execution.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Lombard (1 of 2)

Lombard¹

/ (ˈlɒmbəd, -bɑːd, ˈlʌm-) /

noun

a native or inhabitant of Lombardy

Also called: Langobard a member of an ancient Germanic people who settled in N Italy after 568 ad

adjective Also: Lombardic

of or relating to Lombardy or the Lombards

British Dictionary definitions for Lombard (2 of 2)

Lombard²

/ (ˈlɒmbəd, -bɑːd, ˈlʌm-) /

noun

Peter. ?1100–?60, Italian theologian, noted for his Sententiarum libri quatuor

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