Government House

or government house

noun

the official residence of a colonial governor, as in a British Commonwealth country.

Origin of Government House

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example sentences from the Web for government house

It is a mean-looking town: nearly all wood houses: a very good fort and government-house.

Journal of a Voyage across the Atlantic |George Moore
She was carried to St. John's and taken to Government-house, where she was kindly treated.

Lecture On The Aborigines Of Newfoundland |Joseph Noad
They might smoke as good as that at the government-house, but he rather doubted it.

Parrot & Co. |Harold MacGrath
I never heard it until I came to Kornegalle, where it haunts the rocky hill at the back of Government-house.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon |J. Emerson Tennent

She said, that while Pierre dressed him, she would put up some clothes for a short visit to Government-house.

The Hour and the Man |Harriet Martineau

British Dictionary definitions for government house

Government House

noun

the official residence of a representative of the British Crown (such as a Canadian Lieutenant-Governor or an Australian Governor General) in a state or province that recognizes the British sovereign as Head of the Commonwealth

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Government House

or government house

noun

Origin of Government House

Example sentences from the Web for government house

British Dictionary definitions for government house

noun