English Explanatory Dictionary

Wall Street

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
  2. The street that traditionally has been a principal locus for those entities and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to them.

Pronunciation

/ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/ /ˈwɔl ˌstɹit/ /ˈwɑl-/ En-au-Wall Street.ogg

Word forms

Wall Street

Etymology

From wall + street. The term is the name of a street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A., where the palisade of New Amsterdam was once located. The street is known for the many major U.S. financial institutions located there.

Synonyms

the Street

Antonyms

Main Street

Related words

Madison Avenue

Derived words

Black Wall Street Wall Streeter Wall Streety wolf of Wall Street
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