See Fleet Street in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From the (now underground) River Fleet, over which much of Fleet Street runs.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Fleet Street"
},
"expansion": "Fleet Street",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in England",
"orig": "en:Places in England",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in Greater London, England",
"orig": "en:Places in Greater London, England",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "place",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Places in London",
"orig": "en:Places in London",
"parents": [
"Places",
"Names",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "60 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "78 22",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "69 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "91 9",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Named roads",
"orig": "en:Named roads",
"parents": [
"Names",
"Roads",
"All topics",
"Proper nouns",
"Terms by semantic function",
"Road transport",
"Fundamental",
"Nouns",
"Transport",
"Lemmas"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1569, C. R., The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on thursday was sennight, the .xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God. M.DLX.ix.:",
"text": "And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A street in Westminster borough, London, England, United Kingdom, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism."
],
"id": "en-Fleet_Street-en-name-J4409tI9",
"links": [
[
"Westminster",
"Westminster#English"
],
[
"London",
"London#English"
],
[
"England",
"England#English"
],
[
"United Kingdom",
"United Kingdom#English"
],
[
"Ludgate Hill",
"Ludgate Hill"
],
[
"Strand",
"Strand"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "91 9",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "Fletestreete"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English metonyms",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me.\" \"In the face of photographs?\" \"Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!\" \"In the face of specimens?\" \"Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141:",
"text": "Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "We will know soon enough whether Cameron's was a masterly piece of nerve keeping, or the fatal blunder that broke the union of 1707. In 2012, Salmond gave some listeners the impression that devo max is what he really wanted. Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: \"I told you so\", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:",
"text": "It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"English journalism or journalists as a group."
],
"id": "en-Fleet_Street-en-name-Kwr~WJh2",
"links": [
[
"English",
"English"
],
[
"journalism",
"journalism"
],
[
"journalist",
"journalist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymically, collective) English journalism or journalists as a group."
],
"tags": [
"collective",
"metonymically"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"River Fleet",
"en:Fleet Street"
],
"word": "Fleet Street"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Named roads"
],
"etymology_text": "From the (now underground) River Fleet, over which much of Fleet Street runs.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"head": "Fleet Street"
},
"expansion": "Fleet Street",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Places in England",
"en:Places in Greater London, England",
"en:Places in London"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1569, C. R., The true discripcion of this marueilous straunge Fishe, whiche was taken on thursday was sennight, the .xvi. day of June, this present month, in the yeare of our Lord God. M.DLX.ix.:",
"text": "And it is to bee ſeene in London, at the red Lyon, in Fleteſtreete.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A street in Westminster borough, London, England, United Kingdom, that runs from Ludgate Hill to the Strand; formerly the centre of English journalism."
],
"links": [
[
"Westminster",
"Westminster#English"
],
[
"London",
"London#English"
],
[
"England",
"England#English"
],
[
"United Kingdom",
"United Kingdom#English"
],
[
"Ludgate Hill",
"Ludgate Hill"
],
[
"Strand",
"Strand"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English collective nouns",
"English metonyms",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"They will say that you are an infernal liar and a scientific charlatan, exactly as you and others said of me.\" \"In the face of photographs?\" \"Faked, Summerlee! Clumsily faked!\" \"In the face of specimens?\" \"Ah, there we may have them! Malone and his filthy Fleet Street crew may be all yelping our praises yet.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, Janet P. Morgan, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, page 141:",
"text": "Whenever I feel really depressed about the stinkingness of politics, I take a dive into Fleet Street and see what stinkingness really is.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "We will know soon enough whether Cameron's was a masterly piece of nerve keeping, or the fatal blunder that broke the union of 1707. In 2012, Salmond gave some listeners the impression that devo max is what he really wanted. Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: \"I told you so\", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2023 September 23, Lauren Indvik, “God is in the details”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:",
"text": "It was there—after she fired most of the staff—that Fleet Street began to paint [Anna Wintour] as an ice queen.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"English journalism or journalists as a group."
],
"links": [
[
"English",
"English"
],
[
"journalism",
"journalism"
],
[
"journalist",
"journalist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(metonymically, collective) English journalism or journalists as a group."
],
"tags": [
"collective",
"metonymically"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfliːt ˌstɹiːt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "Fletestreete"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"River Fleet",
"en:Fleet Street"
],
"word": "Fleet Street"
}
Download raw JSONL data for Fleet Street meaning in English (3.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.