WHITEHALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Whitehall mean? 

• WHITEHALL (noun)
  The noun WHITEHALL has 2 senses:

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

2. the British civil service

  Familiarity information: WHITEHALL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITEHALL (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

“He’s a fine fellow,” said Holmes, as we came out into Whitehall.

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

They know—and shall know—nothing of Whitehall Terrace.

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

His Pall Mall lodgings, the Diogenes Club, Whitehall—that is his cycle.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The long thong cracked between the ears of the leader, the groom sprang for the pavement, and Jermyn Street had changed for St. James’s, and that again for Whitehall with a swiftness which showed that the gallant mares were as impatient as their master.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no one in Charles Street, but a great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall, at the extremity.

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

We will go straight to Whitehall Terrace and bring the matter to a head.

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

Now we are in Whitehall.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mycroft lodges in Pall Mall, and he walks round the corner into Whitehall every morning and back every evening.

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

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

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

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at Fladong’s, in Oxford Street, which was reserved as entirely for the Navy as Slaughter’s was for the Army, or Ibbetson’s for the Church of England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)