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CITY OF WESTMINSTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does City of Westminster mean?
• CITY OF WESTMINSTER (noun)
The noun CITY OF WESTMINSTER has 1 sense:
1. a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey
Familiarity information: CITY OF WESTMINSTER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
City of Westminster; Westminster
Instance hypernyms:
borough (one of the administrative divisions of a large city)
Meronyms (parts of "City of Westminster"):
Buckingham Palace (the London residence of the British sovereign)
Downing Street (a street of Westminster in London)
Houses of Parliament (the building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet)
Westminster Abbey (a famous Gothic church of St. Peter in Westminster, London on the site of a former Benedictine monastery)
Holonyms ("City of Westminster" 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)
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