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

London’s Fleet Street was once considered the most important location for journalism in the world, with Britain s national newspaper making the street its home for centuries. —Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Apr. 2026

Other recent Broadway starring roles include the 2024 Tony Award-winning revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and the 2022 revival of The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre. —Matt Grobar, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2026

The family imploded, and there’s something almost novelistic in the trajectory—from cramped newspaper offices in Adelaide and Fleet Street to Lachlan Murdoch as the custodian of a journalistic enterprise’s fetid remains. —Andrew O’Hagan, New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2026

Green Route buses will be rerouted from Fleet Street and Broadway, south of Fayette Street, to provide service to portions of Orleans Street and North Broadway. —Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2025

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