fleet street
/ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A street in Westminster borough, London, England, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism.
name
English journalism or journalists as a group.
Example Sentences
- "And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete."
- ""They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me." "In the face of photographs?" "Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!" "In the face of specimens?" "Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.""
- "Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is."
- "Oh, Bernard, we can't have foreign policy made by yobbos like Fleet Street editors or backbench MPs!"
- "We will know soon enough whether Cameron's was a masterly piece of nerve keeping, or the fatal blunder that broke the union of 1707. In 2012, Salmond gave some listeners the impression that devo max is what he really wanted. Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark."
- "It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt/