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; 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

Brian Glanville: , externalOne of Britain's most respected football writers, his career in Fleet Street stretched for nearly seven decades.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025

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