Fleet-street definition

British journalism.
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(place, proper) Old street in central London, where several newspaper & printing offices are located.
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(proper) The London press.
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A street in Westminster that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand, formerly the centre of English journalism.
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(by extension) English journalism or journalists as a group.
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Origin of fleet-street

  • After Fleet Street in central London, long the headquarters for many British newspaper publishers

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the (now underground) River Fleet, over which much of Fleet Street runs.

    From Wiktionary

Fleet-street Sentence Examples

  • The legend of an indecent consecration at the Nag's Head tavern in Fleet Street seems first to have been printed by the Jesuit, Christopher Holywood, in 1604; and it has long been abandoned by reputable controversialists.

  • The slope of Farringdon Road, where crossed by Holborn Viaduct, and of New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, marks its course exactly, and that of Fleet Street and Ludgate Hill its steep banks.

  • In the Strand, and more especially in Fleet Street and its offshoots, are found the offices of the majority of the most important daily newspapers and other journals.

  • They removed to Fleet Street or the New Temple in 1184.

  • On the suppression of the order by command of the pope the house in Fleet Street was given in 1313 by Edward II.

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