Fleet Street

noun

ˈflēt- How to pronounce Fleet Street (audio)
: the London press
Fleet Streeter
ˈflēt-ˌstrē-tər How to pronounce Fleet Street (audio)
noun

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Fleet Street The Fleet Street of today looks vastly different from the Fleet Street of 1969. — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 My Sun colleagues back at the paper’s Fleet Street office had just discovered that Jagger was planning to reunite with Hall, the glamorous cover girl and catwalk star, in Paris. — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 Set against the competitive world of Fleet Street, Murdoch purchases the failing Sun and recruits Lamb, a working-class editor with a very different idea of what a newspaper can be. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 2 Sep. 2026 Jules is an amalgam of real women who worked on Fleet Street—the street in central London that was, for a time, the center of the British newspaper industry, where virtually every major British newspaper had its offices. — Rebecca Ford, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for Fleet Street

Word History

Etymology

Fleet Street, London, England, center of the London newspaper district

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Fleet Street was in 1882

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