Tower of London

American  

[tou-er] / ˈtaʊ ər /

noun

1. a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.

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Tower of London British  

noun

1. a fortress in the City of London, on the River Thames: begun 1078; later extended and used as a palace, the main state prison, and now as a museum containing the crown jewels

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Tower of London

They argued the vast new embassy next to the Tower of London would increase the risk of a terror attack and of espionage and harassment of dissidents and protesters.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Pepys watched the Great Fire from the Tower of London, near where he lived, and came to grasp, with shock, the size and scale of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Peter Flynn, a 54-year-old local electrician, likens Reform’s rise to the peasants’ revolt in 1381, when a group of disaffected rebels stormed the Tower of London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Fatima Ali, 19, Miriam Cranch, 22, Mack Preston, 22, and Matthew Cooper, 50, face charges relating to the Crown Jewels' incident at the Tower of London.

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026

Most featured her and a crew of girls and boys, arms around each other, in front of places like the Tower of London or Madame Tussauds.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart