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

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

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

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2023

The Telegraph was first, but were followed almost immediately by the remainder of Fleet Street.

From BBC • May 7, 2023

He now holds mixed feelings about his time on Fleet Street, “deemed a dissipation of talent by both my wives, and probably by all my children.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2022

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