Madison Avenue love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The US advertising industry.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or working in the US advertising industry.

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  • proper noun An avenue in Manhattan, New York, known as the center of the American advertising industry.
  • proper noun by extension This industry, whatever location.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Madison Avenue, in New York City, historically the center of the industry.]

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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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