west endn.adj.

Brit.

/ˌwɛst ˈɛnd/, U.S.

/ˌwɛst ˈɛnd/

Forms: see west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep. and end n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adj., end n.

Etymology: < the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of west adj. (see discussion at west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep.) + end n. Compare Old Frisian westende (West Frisian westein ), Middle Dutch westende , westeinde , also westerende (Dutch westeinde ), Middle Low German westende . Compare north end n., south end n., east end n.

A. n.

1. The western part of something; spec. the western end of a church.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [noun] > part or place

westdealeOE

west endeOE

west halfeOE

westwardeOE

westdalec1175

westc1275

west sidec1300

westwardc1350

Occidentc1375

occientc1450

westwards?1574

west half1577

occidental1587

Western world1894

eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 9 Hire [sc. Europe] on westende is Scotland [i.e. Ireland].

OE Death of Alfred (Tiber. B.i) 24 Syððan hine man byrigde..æt þam westende, þam styple ful gehende, on þam suðportice.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 109 Touward þe westende [?c1225 Cleo. west half] of ðe worlde.

1408–17 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) Introd. p. xcvi A Tent withowt the west ende of the church yerd made of Clothe.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1733 A selly nounbre Of wrichis & wirlingis out of þe west endis.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 6 The West Ende of Ewelm Paroche Chirch.

1592 in F. H. Goldney Rec. Chippenham (1889) 315 A Shoppe house or standing newlye erected and builte by the saied William situate and beinge at the Weste end of the Shambles there.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iii. 8 Goe thou with her to the West end of the wood.

c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 126 Built after the Gotish manner, with two spires..at the West end.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4906/3 We met an English Runner off the West-end of this Island [sc. Jamaica].

1789 Gentleman's Mag. May 402/1 This prelate..made the great gate at the West end, and the postern at the South.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 144 The west end of the defile formed by the Luckenbooths was secured in the same manner.

1847 J. Hadfield Eccl., Castellated & Domest. Archit. Eng. 5 The respond-corbel at the west end of the north side.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 59 The upper row of stalls..at the west end of the chancel.

1909 Musical Times 50 568/2 The church possesses two libraries. One..is located at the west end.

1956 C. Fox in G. B. Harden Dark-age Brit. iii. 210 The dam is clearly not a single-purpose structure; its complexity is further illustrated by the wall outside at its west end, extending south.

2006 Church Times 22 Dec. 13/1 After 300 years, the Saxons replaced the wooden structure with a stone one, and their building is still the Galilee chapel at the west end of the nave.

2. spec. Now usually with capital initials.

a. The western end of a town or city.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > parts of town or village

town end1192

west end1428

head1458

townhead1536

frontier1894

1428 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 521 At the west ende of the toun.

1513 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 24 That..all placis of the est end of the town and wost end be in lykwys rewlit anent the stoping of hedrowmes and casting of souchis.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 102 There be 2. Wooden Bridges at the West Ende of the Towne.

1605 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 164 The bildinge of the scollhowse and the new smethe at the weste end of Padyam.

1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 128 A Burial-place for the Anabaptists, situate and being in Oxstreet at the west end of the said Town.

1776 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 11 Sept. in D. H. Bond & W. R. McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers (1977) iii. 186 A gentleman in a certain coffeehouse at the Westend of town.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iii. vi. 78 He privately took a lodging at the West end of the town.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vii. 61 A fashionable neighbourhood at the west end of the town.

1882 Cent. Mag. June 258/1 Rumford street is one of those old-fashioned thoroughfares at the west end of Boston.

1920 A. E. Wood Some Unsolved Probl. Univ. Town i. ii. 7 No street runs from this section to the west end of town where the best residences of Princeton are located.

1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 182 No one is born in the West End of Glasgow. Everyone moves there.

b. Without of.

(a) A district situated at the western end of a city; spec. the district of London lying between Charing Cross Road and Park Lane.The West End has long been a fashionable part of London, and is now known as a centre for entertainment, shopping, and dining (cf. theatre-land n. at theatre n. Compounds 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of

vintrya1456

steelyard1474

tower hillc1480

city1556

Bow-bell1600

row1607

gate1723

east end1742

Mayfair1754

garden1763

warren1769

west?1789

the Borough1797

west end1807

Holy Land1821

Belgravia1848

Tyburnia1848

Mesopotamia1850

South Kensington1862

Dockland1904

South Ken1933

Fitzrovia1958

square mile1966

1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. I. 38 The devices at the west end, are usually crowns, stars, crescents.

1815 Zeluca III. 143 As you're staying with a relation at the west end..there's no harm in making a genteel acquaintance—eh?

1856 Times 23 Apr. 10/2 Mr. James Rodgers, known at the west-end as an original low comedian.

1873 S. A. Drake Old Landmarks & Hist. Personages Boston x. 317 The college was removed to the West End, where it has acquired a fearful notoriety.

1892 Daily News 17 Oct. 2/8 Pneumatic tubes between this Central Office and..post offices in the City and West-end.

1905 Times 12 Jan. 9/3 It is intolerable to look upon penury in the East-end when the houses of the well-to-do in the West-end are filled with luxury and ease.

1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 92 Do not wander about unescorted anywhere in the West End at night.

1994 R. G. MacCallum Tongs Ya Bas 159 The very thought of going up the toon or especially the West End makes most schemies' toes curl.

2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iii. 60 It's time for my solitary walk through the West End in search of the ever elusive cab.

(b) The people of the West End collectively; the theatres and entertainment industry of the West End considered collectively.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of part of town

West Ender1823

west end1882

uptowner1924

urban villager1961

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre > collectively

broadway1881

west end1882

small1886

off-Broadway1953

off-off-Broadway1957

off-off-off Broadway1966

Off-Off1975

the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > London > parts of London

cocknel1605

Wappineer1690

Savoyard1699

Wappingera1734

West Endian1817

East Ender1821

Belgravian1848

west end1882

Kensingtonian1889

heathen1891

Bloomsburian1902

1863 O. W. Holmes Oration delivered before City Authorities of Boston 4th July 30 We know what the West End of London wishes may be result of this controversy.]

1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. vii. 181 She was setting up a dressmaker's shop;..she had hopes of support, even from the West End, where she had friends.

1934 Punch 14 Nov. 552/1 The growing function of the outlying theatres is to spot winners for the West-End.

1979 Listener 16 Aug. 206/3 No one wanted a National Theatre. The West End didn't want it because they feared a new rival.

2000 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 6/4 Her presence..is symptomatic of the West End's increasingly screen-bound commercialism.

c. The fashionable or wealthy quarter of a town or other place. Also: the theatre or entertainment district of a town or city.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > fashionable part

court-end1712

west end1823

up-town1946

golden mile1951

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xlv. 125 The Great World..Meaneth the West or worst end of a city.

1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 5 30 Richter, for his part, was quite excluded from the West-end of Hof: for Hof too has its West-end... So poor Richter could only be admitted to the West-end of the Universe.

1863 J. H. Speke Jrnl. Discov. Source Nile xii. 339 A number of huts..were at once assigned to me, on the face of a hill... It was considered the ‘West End’.

1917 Art World Sept. 504/1 Such plans would have Central Park merely a West End for fat burghers.

2009 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 30 June 10 Bristolians have had their very own West End in the heart of the city.

B. adj. Usually with capital initials.

1. attributive. Of or relating to the West End of a city, esp. London.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > London > parts of

Whitechapel1785

west end1820

Mayfair1843

Belgravian1848

Tyburnian1850

West Endian1856

West Central1857

West Endy1890

Kensingtonian1902

Mayfairish1938

South Bank1951

1820 Monthly Mag. Jan. 492/2 The latest outrages of the banditti who infested this metropolis at the last West End Fair, have attracted much public attention.

1835 Court Mag. 6 4/1 A refuge for the West-end destitute of all denominations.

1848 Times 16 Oct. 4/6 She was so extremely nervous at acting before a West-end audience that she cannot..be said to have given them a real specimen of her powers.

1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd III. viii. 148 A colour that West-End tailors had vainly striven to emulate.

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray iv. 81 I shall take a West End theatre and bring her out properly.

1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xiii That young man's a West End poop... And he used to be quite a nice boy.

1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 171 I got my first West-End engagement. Since then, I've never looked back.

1983 S. Vizinczey Innocent Millionaire iii. 14 Occasionally his London agent got him a part in the West End production of an American play.

2007 Esquire Feb. 85/1 In the midst of a sober discussion about his chances of making it onto the West End stage he suddenly detonates with excitement.

2. Resembling or characteristic of the West End, esp. of London; spec. sophisticated, cosmopolitan.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [adjective] > type of theatre

west end1851

off-Broadway1953

off-off-off Broadway1959

1851 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 246/1 The lodging houses [in the plans for a redesigned Smithfield Market] have a very West-end appearance.

1875 All Year Round 11 Sept. 569/1 They are now, many of them, gay, fashionable young bucks, with a very West-end air about them.

1889 J. R. Lowell Latest Ess. (1891) 67 With that West-End view of the realities of life which Englishmen of a certain class feel it proper to take.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point x. 159 So well travelled, so brilliantly cosmopolitan and West-End.

2007 E. Morrison Swung (2008) ii. 144 Seeing a place that was so big, so West-End. Alice made herself busy in the kitchen.

Derivatives

ˌWest ˈEnder n. a person who lives at the western end of a town, esp. of London.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of part of town

West Ender1823

west end1882

uptowner1924

urban villager1961

1823 H. Pellatt Sprees of Hall 48 West-enders stare and grunt And call our customs gritty, But when they want the blunt They pull up in the city.

1874 H. Mayhew London Characters 299 Already there is a sort of esprit de locale..amongst the inhabitants of the new quarters that the old West Ender never dreamed of.

1915 P. Davis Street-land ii. 26 The Boston Common is very frequently the battleground between the West-Enders and the South-Enders.

2009 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 June 14 The looks of disbelief on all the trendy West Enders' faces that such a beautiful, functional and funky building could even exist in Govan.

ˌWest ˈEndish adj. of or characteristic of the West End of London.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective]

townishc1450

of mode1676

fashionable1712

smart1719

high-lifed1733

social1741

high-lived1757

West Endish1855

Fifth Avenue1858

mundane1904

societified1912

Park Avenue1923

1855 Monthly Christian Spectator June 389 There was an outer circle of spectators, many of them having a smart West-endish look.

1909 Daily Chron. 9 June 5/4 An advanced..West-endish sort of woman.

1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 5 Aug. 36 We are lunching in the restaurant of his smart, West Endish hotel.

ˌWest ˈEndism n. the quality, character, or behaviour associated with the western end of a town or city, esp. of London.

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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > style or quality of

fashion1604

mode1668

bon-ton1747

haut ton1801

swellism1840

West Endism1841

swellishness1863

toffishness1873

mundanity1892

swellness1894

1841 C. E. Lester Glory & Shame Eng. II. 140 Divers ancient females, who..have been elevated to preside over this University of West-Endism.

1960 G. Allighan Curtain-up on S. Afr. 260 A social life staged on the family stoep, which might be lacking the veneer of West-Endism but is constructed of the more genuine components of true friendliness and spontaneous hospitality.

2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 Mar. 14 Is West Endism spreading to the city?

ˌWest ˈEndy adj. characteristic or suggestive of the western end of a town or city, spec. the West End of London.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > London > parts of

Whitechapel1785

west end1820

Mayfair1843

Belgravian1848

Tyburnian1850

West Endian1856

West Central1857

West Endy1890

Kensingtonian1902

Mayfairish1938

South Bank1951

1890 Aberdeen Jrnl. 6 Oct. 6/4 It..prevented Rubislaw from being what a certain city had been called, ‘east windy, west endy’.

1959 New Chron. 25 July 4/5 Most of it proved too precious and West Endy for television.

2004 Observer 24 Oct. 27 It's not at all the sort of place that that crew go to. They don't go to West-Endy places.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	west end
释义	west endn.adj. Brit. /ˌwɛst ˈɛnd/, U.S. /ˌwɛst ˈɛnd/ Forms: see west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep. and end n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: west adj., end n. Etymology: < the uninflected (originally adverb) stem of west adj. (see discussion at west adv., adj., n.¹, and prep.) + end n. Compare Old Frisian westende (West Frisian westein ), Middle Dutch westende , westeinde , also westerende (Dutch westeinde ), Middle Low German westende . Compare north end n., south end n., east end n. A. n. 1. The western part of something; spec. the western end of a church. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > West > [noun] > part or place westdealeOE west endeOE west halfeOE westwardeOE westdalec1175 westc1275 west sidec1300 westwardc1350 Occidentc1375 occientc1450 westwards?1574 west half1577 occidental1587 Western world1894 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) i. i. 9 Hire [sc. Europe] on westende is Scotland [i.e. Ireland]. OE Death of Alfred (Tiber. B.i) 24 Syððan hine man byrigde..æt þam westende, þam styple ful gehende, on þam suðportice. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 109 Touward þe westende [?c1225 Cleo. west half] of ðe worlde. 1408–17 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) Introd. p. xcvi A Tent withowt the west ende of the church yerd made of Clothe. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 1733 A selly nounbre Of wrichis & wirlingis out of þe west endis. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) II. 6 The West Ende of Ewelm Paroche Chirch. 1592 in F. H. Goldney Rec. Chippenham (1889) 315 A Shoppe house or standing newlye erected and builte by the saied William situate and beinge at the Weste end of the Shambles there. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iii. 8 Goe thou with her to the West end of the wood. View more context for this quotation c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 126 Built after the Gotish manner, with two spires..at the West end. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4906/3 We met an English Runner off the West-end of this Island [sc. Jamaica]. 1789 Gentleman's Mag. May 402/1 This prelate..made the great gate at the West end, and the postern at the South. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian v, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 144 The west end of the defile formed by the Luckenbooths was secured in the same manner. 1847 J. Hadfield Eccl., Castellated & Domest. Archit. Eng. 5 The respond-corbel at the west end of the north side. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 59 The upper row of stalls..at the west end of the chancel. 1909 Musical Times 50 568/2 The church possesses two libraries. One..is located at the west end. 1956 C. Fox in G. B. Harden Dark-age Brit. iii. 210 The dam is clearly not a single-purpose structure; its complexity is further illustrated by the wall outside at its west end, extending south. 2006 Church Times 22 Dec. 13/1 After 300 years, the Saxons replaced the wooden structure with a stone one, and their building is still the Galilee chapel at the west end of the nave. 2. spec. Now usually with capital initials. a. The western end of a town or city. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] > parts of town or village town end1192 west end1428 head1458 townhead1536 frontier1894 1428 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 521 At the west ende of the toun. 1513 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 24 That..all placis of the est end of the town and wost end be in lykwys rewlit anent the stoping of hedrowmes and casting of souchis. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 102 There be 2. Wooden Bridges at the West Ende of the Towne. 1605 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 164 The bildinge of the scollhowse and the new smethe at the weste end of Padyam. 1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 128 A Burial-place for the Anabaptists, situate and being in Oxstreet at the west end of the said Town. 1776 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 11 Sept. in D. H. Bond & W. R. McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers (1977) iii. 186 A gentleman in a certain coffeehouse at the Westend of town. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iii. vi. 78 He privately took a lodging at the West end of the town. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vii. 61 A fashionable neighbourhood at the west end of the town. 1882 Cent. Mag. June 258/1 Rumford street is one of those old-fashioned thoroughfares at the west end of Boston. 1920 A. E. Wood Some Unsolved Probl. Univ. Town i. ii. 7 No street runs from this section to the west end of town where the best residences of Princeton are located. 1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 182 No one is born in the West End of Glasgow. Everyone moves there. b. Without of. (a) A district situated at the western end of a city; spec. the district of London lying between Charing Cross Road and Park Lane.The West End has long been a fashionable part of London, and is now known as a centre for entertainment, shopping, and dining (cf. theatre-land n. at theatre n. Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of vintrya1456 steelyard1474 tower hillc1480 city1556 Bow-bell1600 row1607 gate1723 east end1742 Mayfair1754 garden1763 warren1769 west?1789 the Borough1797 west end1807 Holy Land1821 Belgravia1848 Tyburnia1848 Mesopotamia1850 South Kensington1862 Dockland1904 South Ken1933 Fitzrovia1958 square mile1966 1807 tr. C. A. G. Goede Stranger in Eng. I. 38 The devices at the west end, are usually crowns, stars, crescents. 1815 Zeluca III. 143 As you're staying with a relation at the west end..there's no harm in making a genteel acquaintance—eh? 1856 Times 23 Apr. 10/2 Mr. James Rodgers, known at the west-end as an original low comedian. 1873 S. A. Drake Old Landmarks & Hist. Personages Boston x. 317 The college was removed to the West End, where it has acquired a fearful notoriety. 1892 Daily News 17 Oct. 2/8 Pneumatic tubes between this Central Office and..post offices in the City and West-end. 1905 Times 12 Jan. 9/3 It is intolerable to look upon penury in the East-end when the houses of the well-to-do in the West-end are filled with luxury and ease. 1966 H. Davies New London Spy (1967) 92 Do not wander about unescorted anywhere in the West End at night. 1994 R. G. MacCallum Tongs Ya Bas 159 The very thought of going up the toon or especially the West End makes most schemies' toes curl. 2000 I. Edward-Jones My Canapé Hell (2001) iii. 60 It's time for my solitary walk through the West End in search of the ever elusive cab. (b) The people of the West End collectively; the theatres and entertainment industry of the West End considered collectively. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of part of town West Ender1823 west end1882 uptowner1924 urban villager1961 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre > collectively broadway1881 west end1882 small1886 off-Broadway1953 off-off-Broadway1957 off-off-off Broadway1966 Off-Off1975 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > London > parts of London cocknel1605 Wappineer1690 Savoyard1699 Wappingera1734 West Endian1817 East Ender1821 Belgravian1848 west end1882 Kensingtonian1889 heathen1891 Bloomsburian1902 1863 O. W. Holmes Oration delivered before City Authorities of Boston 4th July 30 We know what the West End of London wishes may be result of this controversy.] 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men I. vii. 181 She was setting up a dressmaker's shop;..she had hopes of support, even from the West End, where she had friends. 1934 Punch 14 Nov. 552/1 The growing function of the outlying theatres is to spot winners for the West-End. 1979 Listener 16 Aug. 206/3 No one wanted a National Theatre. The West End didn't want it because they feared a new rival. 2000 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 6/4 Her presence..is symptomatic of the West End's increasingly screen-bound commercialism. c. The fashionable or wealthy quarter of a town or other place. Also: the theatre or entertainment district of a town or city. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > fashionable part court-end1712 west end1823 up-town1946 golden mile1951 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI xlv. 125 The Great World..Meaneth the West or worst end of a city. 1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. 5 30 Richter, for his part, was quite excluded from the West-end of Hof: for Hof too has its West-end... So poor Richter could only be admitted to the West-end of the Universe. 1863 J. H. Speke Jrnl. Discov. Source Nile xii. 339 A number of huts..were at once assigned to me, on the face of a hill... It was considered the ‘West End’. 1917 Art World Sept. 504/1 Such plans would have Central Park merely a West End for fat burghers. 2009 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 30 June 10 Bristolians have had their very own West End in the heart of the city. B. adj. Usually with capital initials. 1. attributive. Of or relating to the West End of a city, esp. London. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > London > parts of Whitechapel1785 west end1820 Mayfair1843 Belgravian1848 Tyburnian1850 West Endian1856 West Central1857 West Endy1890 Kensingtonian1902 Mayfairish1938 South Bank1951 1820 Monthly Mag. Jan. 492/2 The latest outrages of the banditti who infested this metropolis at the last West End Fair, have attracted much public attention. 1835 Court Mag. 6 4/1 A refuge for the West-end destitute of all denominations. 1848 Times 16 Oct. 4/6 She was so extremely nervous at acting before a West-end audience that she cannot..be said to have given them a real specimen of her powers. 1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd III. viii. 148 A colour that West-End tailors had vainly striven to emulate. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray iv. 81 I shall take a West End theatre and bring her out properly. 1919 W. Deeping Second Youth xiii That young man's a West End poop... And he used to be quite a nice boy. 1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 171 I got my first West-End engagement. Since then, I've never looked back. 1983 S. Vizinczey Innocent Millionaire iii. 14 Occasionally his London agent got him a part in the West End production of an American play. 2007 Esquire Feb. 85/1 In the midst of a sober discussion about his chances of making it onto the West End stage he suddenly detonates with excitement. 2. Resembling or characteristic of the West End, esp. of London; spec. sophisticated, cosmopolitan. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [adjective] > type of theatre west end1851 off-Broadway1953 off-off-off Broadway1959 1851 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 246/1 The lodging houses [in the plans for a redesigned Smithfield Market] have a very West-end appearance. 1875 All Year Round 11 Sept. 569/1 They are now, many of them, gay, fashionable young bucks, with a very West-end air about them. 1889 J. R. Lowell Latest Ess. (1891) 67 With that West-End view of the realities of life which Englishmen of a certain class feel it proper to take. 1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point x. 159 So well travelled, so brilliantly cosmopolitan and West-End. 2007 E. Morrison Swung (2008) ii. 144 Seeing a place that was so big, so West-End. Alice made herself busy in the kitchen. Derivatives ˌWest ˈEnder n. a person who lives at the western end of a town, esp. of London. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > inhabitant of part of town West Ender1823 west end1882 uptowner1924 urban villager1961 1823 H. Pellatt Sprees of Hall 48 West-enders stare and grunt And call our customs gritty, But when they want the blunt They pull up in the city. 1874 H. Mayhew London Characters 299 Already there is a sort of esprit de locale..amongst the inhabitants of the new quarters that the old West Ender never dreamed of. 1915 P. Davis Street-land ii. 26 The Boston Common is very frequently the battleground between the West-Enders and the South-Enders. 2009 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 16 June 14 The looks of disbelief on all the trendy West Enders' faces that such a beautiful, functional and funky building could even exist in Govan. ˌWest ˈEndish adj. of or characteristic of the West End of London. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [adjective] townishc1450 of mode1676 fashionable1712 smart1719 high-lifed1733 social1741 high-lived1757 West Endish1855 Fifth Avenue1858 mundane1904 societified1912 Park Avenue1923 1855 Monthly Christian Spectator June 389 There was an outer circle of spectators, many of them having a smart West-endish look. 1909 Daily Chron. 9 June 5/4 An advanced..West-endish sort of woman. 1993 Evening Standard (Nexis) 5 Aug. 36 We are lunching in the restaurant of his smart, West Endish hotel. ˌWest ˈEndism n. the quality, character, or behaviour associated with the western end of a town or city, esp. of London. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > style or quality of fashion1604 mode1668 bon-ton1747 haut ton1801 swellism1840 West Endism1841 swellishness1863 toffishness1873 mundanity1892 swellness1894 1841 C. E. Lester Glory & Shame Eng. II. 140 Divers ancient females, who..have been elevated to preside over this University of West-Endism. 1960 G. Allighan Curtain-up on S. Afr. 260 A social life staged on the family stoep, which might be lacking the veneer of West-Endism but is constructed of the more genuine components of true friendliness and spontaneous hospitality. 2001 Scotsman (Nexis) 7 Mar. 14 Is West Endism spreading to the city? ˌWest ˈEndy adj. characteristic or suggestive of the western end of a town or city, spec. the West End of London. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [adjective] > in Britain > London > parts of Whitechapel1785 west end1820 Mayfair1843 Belgravian1848 Tyburnian1850 West Endian1856 West Central1857 West Endy1890 Kensingtonian1902 Mayfairish1938 South Bank1951 1890 Aberdeen Jrnl. 6 Oct. 6/4 It..prevented Rubislaw from being what a certain city had been called, ‘east windy, west endy’. 1959 New Chron. 25 July 4/5 Most of it proved too precious and West Endy for television. 2004 Observer 24 Oct. 27 It's not at all the sort of place that that crew go to. They don't go to West-Endy places. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.eOE
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