Library / English Dictionary

WHITEHALL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The British civil service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Whitehall" is a kind of...):

civil service (government workers; usually hired on the basis of competitive examinations)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Holonyms ("Whitehall" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

Credits

 Context examples: 

It was of such importance that I have never left it in my safe, but have taken it across each evening to my house in Whitehall Terrace, and kept it in my bedroom in a locked despatch-box.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)