Madison Avenue
Meanings
name
- The American advertising industry, regardless of location.
- 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
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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