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Whitehalls

Whitehalls is the plural of Whitehall.

Meaning of Whitehall

Proper noun

Whitehall (countable and uncountable, plural Whitehalls)

  1. A wide street in Westminster between Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square; it houses several government offices.
  2. (UK, broadly, metonymically) 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.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
  3. An eastern suburb of Bristol (OS grid ref ST6174).
  4. A hamlet in Hemyock parish, Mid Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref ST1214).
  5. A hamlet in Marwood parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5337).
  6. A hamlet in Odiham parish, Hart district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU7452).

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Questions about Whitehalls

What is Whitehalls the plural of?
Whitehalls is the plural of Whitehall.

Words near Whitehalls in the dictionary

  1. whitegraft
  2. Whitehair
  3. whitehaired
  4. Whitehairs
  5. Whitehall
  6. Whitehalls
  7. whitehanded
  8. whitehat
  9. whitehats
  10. Whitehaven
  11. Whitehawk

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