WESTMINSTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Westminster mean? 

• WESTMINSTER (noun)
  The noun WESTMINSTER has 1 sense:

1. a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey

  Familiarity information: WESTMINSTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WESTMINSTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

City of Westminster; Westminster

Instance hypernyms:

borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)

Meronyms (parts of "Westminster"):

Buckingham Palace (the London residence of the British sovereign)

Downing Street (a street of Westminster in London)

Houses of Parliament (the building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet)

Westminster Abbey (a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery)

Holonyms ("Westminster" 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)

 Context examples 

Godolphin Street, Westminster, is only a few minutes’ walk from Whitehall Terrace.

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

Whoa, my darlings, you’ll have your fill of it before you reach Westminster Bridge.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes suddenly seemed to catch something in one of them, "The Westminster Gazette"—I knew it by the colour—and he grew quite white.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We were now down in Westminster.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Let us try to reconstruct the situation,” said he as we drove swiftly past the Houses of Parliament and over Westminster Bridge.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty executed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He is convinced, of course, that he is destined for Westminster Abbey.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the P.M. to Westminster Abbey, but don't expect me to describe it, that's impossible, so I'll only say it was sublime!

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I always say to her, 'you must make yourself easy. The evil is now irremediable, and it has been entirely your own doing. Why would you be persuaded by my uncle, Sir Robert, against your own judgment, to place Edward under private tuition, at the most critical time of his life? If you had only sent him to Westminster as well as myself, instead of sending him to Mr. Pratt's, all this would have been prevented.' This is the way in which I always consider the matter, and my mother is perfectly convinced of her error.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I have only to give them their heads, and they will race me into Westminster.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)