Whitehall

[ hwahyt-hawl, wahyt- ]

noun

1. Also called Whitehall Palace. a former palace in central London, England, originally built in the reign of Henry III: execution of Charles I, 1649.
2. the main thoroughfare in London, England, between Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament.
3. the British government or its policies.
4. a city in central Ohio, near Columbus.
5. a city in W Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.

Whitehall

/ ˌwaɪtˈhɔːl /

noun

1. a street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament: site of the main government offices
2. the British Government or its central administration

Example Sentences

Sniffing Tory conspiracies under every Whitehall bed, ours specially?

From The Daily Beast

It is set in 1540 and some of the action takes place in Whitehall Palace, the one that burned to the ground in 1698.

From The Daily Beast

Some senior Whitehall sources believed that there was an early “stiffness” between the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher.

From The Daily Beast

This is why Whitehall brought forward the date of Independence.

From The Daily Beast

The British government assembled some of the most able bureaucrats in Whitehall to oversee famine relief.

From The Daily Beast

Just at this moment despatches of the gravest importance arrived from Guelders at Whitehall.

From Project Gutenberg

Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it being very cold and foul and rainy weather.

From Project Gutenberg

At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back again to the office, and after that home to my workmen.

From Project Gutenberg

To Whitehall and there with Mr. Creed took a most pleasant walk for two hours in the park, which is now a very fair place.

From Project Gutenberg

There were dense masses of people up Whitehall, and right on to Westminster Bridge.

From Project Gutenberg