Dictionary

Whitechapel en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈwʌɪt.t͡ʃæp.əl/ (UK)
• /ˈwaɪt.t͡ʃæp.əl/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Whitechapel cart.
   alt of Whitechapel cart
   • [S]he saw also a light stylish-looking cart which she would have called a Whitechapel had she been properly instructed in such matters[.] 1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter 22, in Can You Forgive Her, London: Chapman and Hall:

Forms

Whitechapel en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈwʌɪt.t͡ʃæp.əl/ (UK)
• /ˈwaɪt.t͡ʃæp.əl/ (General-American)

Etymology

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

Meanings

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)
   • 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. 1898, Frank Thomas Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:
2. A hamlet in Goosnargh parish, Preston district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD5541).

Deriveds

Whitechapel brougham