FLEET STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fleet Street mean? 

• FLEET STREET (noun)
  The noun FLEET STREET has 2 senses:

1. a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated

2. British journalism

  Familiarity information: FLEET STREET used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLEET STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A street in central London where newspaper offices are situated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Holonyms ("Fleet Street" is a part of...):

British capital; capital of the United Kingdom; Greater London; London (the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center)

Sense 2

Meaning:

British journalism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Fleet Street" is a kind of...):

journalism; news media (newspapers and magazines collectively)

 Context examples 

Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope’s Court looked like a coster’s orange barrow.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For three hours we strolled about together, watching the ever-changing kaleidoscope of life as it ebbs and flows through Fleet Street and the Strand.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We varied the legal character of these proceedings by going to see some perspiring Wax-work, in Fleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and by visiting Miss Linwood's Exhibition, which I remember as a Mausoleum of needlework, favourable to self-examination and repentance; and by inspecting the Tower of London; and going to the top of St. Paul's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Vell, ve chased ’im down ’Olburn, an’ down Fleet Street, an’ down Cheapside, an’ past the ’Change, and on all the vay to Voppin’ an’ we only catched ’im in the shippin’ office, vere ’e vas askin’ ’ow soon ’e could get a passage to voreign parts.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope’s Court, Fleet Street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We made a pause at the toy shop in Fleet Street, to see the giants of Saint Dunstan's strike upon the bells—we had timed our going, so as to catch them at it, at twelve o'clock—and then went on towards Ludgate Hill, and St. Paul's Churchyard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When I had none, I used to look at a venison shop in Fleet Street; or I have strolled, at such a time, as far as Covent Garden Market, and stared at the pineapples.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)