Whitechapel

English

Etymology

Named after a small chapel of ease dedicated to St Mary.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwʌɪt.t͡ʃæp.əl/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwaɪt.t͡ʃæp.əl/

Proper noun

Whitechapel

  1. An urban area in the borough of Tower Hamlets, in east London, Greater London, England, traditionally a poor working-class neighbourhood. (OS grid ref TQ3481)
    • 1898, Frank Thomas Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot‎[1]:
      The first man I spoke to was Whitechapel to the backbone, plainly to be spotted as such as if it had been tattooed on his forehead. Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.
  2. A hamlet in Goosnargh parish, Preston district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5541).

Derived terms

Noun

Whitechapel (plural Whitechapels)

  1. Ellipsis of Whitechapel cart.
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