HARLEY STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Harley Street mean? 

• HARLEY STREET (noun)
  The noun HARLEY STREET has 1 sense:

1. a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located

  Familiarity information: HARLEY STREET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARLEY STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Holonyms ("Harley Street" 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)

 Context examples 

We spent such a day, Edward, in Harley Street yesterday!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

We had crossed Oxford Street and were half way down Harley Street before I could get a word from my companion.

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

Our footfalls rang out crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors’ quarter, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into Oxford Street.

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

In March of that year Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen Mr. Ferrars two or three times in Harley Street, and am much pleased with him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Miss Steeles removed to Harley Street, and all that reached Elinor of their influence there, strengthened her expectation of the event.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elinor remembered what Robert had told her in Harley Street, of his opinion of what his own mediation in his brother's affairs might have done, if applied to in time.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Nothing new was heard by them, for a day or two afterwards, of affairs in Harley Street, or Bartlett's Buildings.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

However this morning he came just as we came home from church; and then it all came out, how he had been sent for Wednesday to Harley Street, and been talked to by his mother and all of them, and how he had declared before them all that he loved nobody but Lucy, and nobody but Lucy would he have.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

One other short call in Harley Street, in which Elinor received her brother's congratulations on their travelling so far towards Barton without any expense, and on Colonel Brandon's being to follow them to Cleveland in a day or two, completed the intercourse of the brother and sisters in town;—and a faint invitation from Fanny, to come to Norland whenever it should happen to be in their way, which of all things was the most unlikely to occur, with a more warm, though less public, assurance, from John to Elinor, of the promptitude with which he should come to see her at Delaford, was all that foretold any meeting in the country.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)