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Whitehall

  • /ˈwaɪthɔːl/
  • /ˈʍaɪthɔːl/

Where it comes from

From Middle English whit (“white”) + halgh (“corner, nook; hall”).

proper noun Whitehalls

  1. countable, uncountable A wide street in Westminster between Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square; it houses several government offices.
  2. UK, broadly, countable, metonymically, uncountable The British government or civil service […] both Whitehall and Downing Street are in a blue funk lest they should do the wrong thing, either let the man slip away with the papers or arrest him without them.
  3. countable, uncountable An eastern suburb of Bristol (OS grid ref ST6174).
  4. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Hemyock parish, Mid Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1214).
  5. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Marwood parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5337).
  6. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7452).
  7. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Sandon parish, North Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL3331).
  8. countable, uncountable A suburb of Darwen, Blackburn with Darwen borough, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD6920).
  9. countable, uncountable A hamlet in Shipley parish, Horsham district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ1321).
  10. countable, uncountable A village on the isle of Stronsay, Orkney Islands council area, Scotland (OS grid ref HY6528).
  11. countable, uncountable A northern suburb of Dublin, Ireland (Irish grid ref O 1638).
  12. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Poinsett County, Arkansas.
  13. countable, uncountable Former spelling of White Hall, California.
  14. countable, uncountable A neighbourhood of Athens, Clarke County, Georgia.
  15. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Owen County, Indiana.
  16. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana.
  17. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
  18. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Dorchester County, Maryland.
  19. countable, uncountable A city and township in Muskegon County, Michigan.
  20. countable, uncountable A town in Jefferson County, Montana.
  21. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Andover Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.
  22. countable, uncountable A town and village therein, in Washington County, New York.
  23. countable, uncountable A city in Franklin County, Ohio.
  24. countable, uncountable A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
  25. countable, uncountable A township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
  26. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in King and Queen County, Virginia.
  27. countable, uncountable A city, the county seat of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
  28. countable, uncountable A surname from Middle English.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: british, ivan, robins, westminster, government, administration, cabinet, executive, downing street, central government, hm government, civil service, bureaucracy, officialdom, establishment, state

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"Whitehall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/whitehall. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

Whitehall. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/whitehall

Chicago

"Whitehall." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/whitehall.

BibTeX
@misc{whitehall_2026,
  title = {Whitehall},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whitehall},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}