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Definition: Fleet Street |
Fleet StreetNoun1. A street in central London where newspaper offices are situated. 2. British journalism. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Fleet Street (London). For 200 years after the Conquest London was watered on the west by "the river of Wells," afterwards called "Fleet dyke, because (Stowe says) it runneth past the Fleete." In the middle of the city and falling into the Thames was Wellbrooke; on the east side, Langbourne; and in the western suburbs, Oldbourne. Along the Fleete and Oldbourne "ships" used to ply with merchandise. These four, together with the Roding, the Lea, the Ravensbourne, and the Wandle, now serve as sewers to the great metropolis. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fleet Street is a famous London street, traditionally the home of the national press. Despite the fact that all the major newspapers have now moved out of their Fleet Street offices, the street's name continues to be used as a synonym for the British press. The last major news office, Reuters left in 2003.It is in the City of London and to the west becomes the Strand, and to the east becomes Ludgate Hill. The nearest tube stations are Temple, Chancery Lane, and Blackfriars. It is very close to City Thameslink station.
The street is named after the River Fleet which flows under the road.
See also
- History of British newspapers.
- Holborn for a description of the area around Fleet Street.
- List of United Kingdom newspapers.
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Crosswords: Fleet Street |
| Specialty definitions using "Fleet Street": Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot ♦ Hoare ♦ Public-house Signs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fleet Street" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (fleet street). |
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 | St. Bride's Avenue, Fleet Street / Drawn by Tho. H. Shepherd ; engraved by J. Tingle. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | London from St. Dunstans Church, Fleet Street. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Charles Lamb | The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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fleet street | 17 |
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| Language | Translations for "Fleet Street"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrugë e vjetër në londër, industri e gazetave. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | улица в лондон, център на английската преса. (various references) | |
Hungarian | londoni újságírás központja. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フリート街 (experimental unmanned spacecraft, flea market, flicker, flicker test, flip flop, free batting, free lance, free market, free pass, free-hand, free-lancer, fricassee, friction, Friedman, frigate, frigidity, Frisbee). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フリートがい. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eetflay eetstray.(various references) | |
Romanian | nume dat presei londoneze. (various references) | |
Russian | улица в лондоне, флит-стрит, английская пресса. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | flit ulica. (various references) | |
Swedish | fleet street, britiska pressen. (various references) | |
Turkish | medyanın etkisi, londra'da basın sokağı, gazetecilik (journalism), basın (media, press, the press). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-f-l-r-s-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: fleetest, resettle. | |
-4 letters: feelers, fetters, fettles, fleeter, leftest, letters, refeels, reflets, settler, sterlet, strette, teeters, telfers, tetters, trestle. | |
-5 letters: feeler, fester, fetter, fettle, fleers, fleets, freest, lefter, letter, refeel, refels, refelt, reflet, relets, retest, settee, setter, settle, streel, street, teeter, telfer, terete, testee, tester, tetter. | |
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