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

1. An avenue in Manhattan, New York, known as the center of the American advertising industry.
2. (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.