WEST END

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West End mean? 

• WEST END (noun)
  The noun WEST END has 1 sense:

1. the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas

  Familiarity information: WEST END used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST END (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city district (a district of a town or city)

Meronyms (parts of "West End"):

Strand (a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels)

Holonyms ("West End" 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 

Oh, to the other side of the West End.

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

Three to two were to be had on Wilson at any West End club two days before the battle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are aware that the Underground runs clear of tunnels at some points in the West End.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was broad day when I awoke and found myself tossing at the south-west end of Treasure Island.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The other secret agents whom I have named live in the extreme West End.

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

He spoke of some burglary which, he said, had been committed in the West End, and he appeared, I remember, to be quite unnecessarily excited about it, declaring that a day should not pass before we should add stronger bolts to our windows and doors.

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

Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End called Westaway’s, and there I used to call about once a week in order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me.

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

He opened a door as he spoke, and looking in we saw a score of well-dressed men, some of whose faces had become familiar to me during my short West End career, seated round a table upon which stood a steaming soup-tureen filled with punch.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did any one, be it East End rough or West End patrician, intrude within the outer ropes, this corp of guardians neither argued nor expostulated, but they fell upon the offender and laced him with their whips until he escaped back out of the forbidden ground.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)