DOWNING STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Downing Street mean? 

• DOWNING STREET (noun)
  The noun DOWNING STREET has 2 senses:

1. a street of Westminster in London

2. the British government

  Familiarity information: DOWNING STREET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWNING STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A street of Westminster in London

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

the Prime Minister lives at No. 10 Downing Street

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Downing Street" is a part of...):

City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The British government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Downing Street" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

 Context examples 

We were fortunate in finding that Lord Holdhurst was still in his chambers in Downing Street, and on Holmes sending in his card we were instantly shown up.

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