Fleet Street

noun

ˈflēt- 

: the London press

Fleet Streeter

ˈflēt-ˌstrē-tər 

noun

Examples of Fleet Street in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

The partnership between two outsiders clawing their way in, joined by an equally canny journalist played by Claire Foy, comes to shape Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare where scribblers plied their trade, in Lamb’s and Murdoch’s images. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 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

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Fleet Street

• amit
• athlete
• backseat
• blackfeet
• broadsheet
• browbeat
• buckwheat
• compete
• compleat
• complete
• conceit
• concrete