Madison Avenue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The American advertising industry, regardless of location.
  2. An avenue in Manhattan, New York, that traditionally has been a principal locus for that industry and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to it.

Word forms

Madison Avenue

Etymology

From Madison Avenue, a north–south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, where advertising boomed in the 1920s.

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