Fleet Street

American  

noun

1. a street in central London, England: location of many newspaper offices; often used figuratively to mean the entire British newspaper world.

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Fleet Street British  

noun

1. a street in central London in which many newspaper offices were formerly situated

2. British journalism or journalists collectively

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Etymology

Origin of Fleet Street

1375–1425; late Middle English Flete Strete, after a nearby stream; see fleet ³

Example Sentences

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Fleet Street

The same could be said of Lesli Margherita’s Mrs. Lovett, the proprietor of a filthy and failing Fleet Street pie shop, but it’s a shakier case.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

Thousands of demonstrators began gathering in the Bank area of central London around midday on Saturday, before heading west along Fleet Street on the planned route to Parliament Square in Westminster.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024

My grandfather’s hardware store was on Fleet Street West.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2023

Four years later, KPF opened an office in London, where it was already working on a Fleet Street headquarters for Goldman Sachs.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

The various Bureaux of Propaganda and the College of Emotional Engineering were housed in a single sixty-story building in Fleet Street.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley