BIG BEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Big Ben mean? 

• BIG BEN (noun)
  The noun BIG BEN has 1 sense:

1. clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London

  Familiarity information: BIG BEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIG BEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Clock in the clock tower of the Houses of Parliament, London

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

clock (a timepiece that shows the time of day)

Holonyms ("Big Ben" 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 

But even so it was twenty-five to eight as we passed Big Ben, and eight struck as we tore down the Brixton Road.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)