Madison Avenue
English
Etymology
From Madison Avenue, a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, where advertising boomed in the 1920s.
Proper noun
Madison Avenue
- An avenue in Manhattan, New York, known as the center of the American advertising industry.
- (by extension) The American advertising industry, regardless of location.
- 1995, SPIN (volume 11, number 1, page 10)
- Maligned by rockers, misunderstood by critics, and merched by Madison Avenue, rave may be the only vital youth culture remaining.
- 1995, SPIN (volume 11, number 1, page 10)