WHITE HOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does White House mean? 

• WHITE HOUSE (noun)
  The noun WHITE HOUSE has 2 senses:

1. the chief executive department of the United States government

2. the government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States

  Familiarity information: WHITE HOUSE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHITE HOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief executive department of the United States government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

EXEC; White House

Hypernyms ("White House" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

government building (a building that houses a branch of government)

residence (the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president))

Meronyms (parts of "White House"):

Oval Office (the office of the President of the United States in the White House)

Holonyms ("White House" is a part of...):

American capital; capital of the United States; Washington; Washington D.C. (the capital of the United States in the District of Columbia and a tourist mecca; George Washington commissioned Charles L'Enfant to lay out the city in 1791)

 Context examples 

At the White House, matters must be better looked after.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was a relief to him, therefore, when their narrow track opened out upon a larger road, and they saw some little way down it a square white house with a great bunch of holly hung out at the end of a stick from one of the upper windows.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am to leave Mansfield Park, and go to the White House, I suppose, as soon as she is removed there.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Why, indeed, Fanny, I should hope to be remembered at such a distance as the White House.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris took possession of the White House, the Grants arrived at the Parsonage, and these events over, everything at Mansfield went on for some time as usual.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

To prevent its being expected, she had fixed on the smallest habitation which could rank as genteel among the buildings of Mansfield parish, the White House being only just large enough to receive herself and her servants, and allow a spare room for a friend, of which she made a very particular point.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)