Fleet Street
Americannoun
noun
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a street in central London in which many newspaper offices were formerly situated
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British journalism or journalists collectively
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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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
As she later told the story, her news editor took an instant dislike to this young, educated woman foisted on him by head office in Fleet Street.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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
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