Fleet Street

noun

: the London press
Fleet Streeter noun

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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 Fisher, meanwhile, is a Broadway vet with credits including Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Moulin Rouge! Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Fleet Street

Word History

Etymology

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

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Fleet Street was in 1882

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“Fleet Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Fleet%20Street. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.

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