Madison Avenue en · PROPN
Etymology
From Madison Avenue, a north–south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, where advertising boomed in the 1920s.
Meanings
-
(US, metonymically) The American advertising industry, regardless of location.
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:
-
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.
Holonyms: Manhattan < New York < New York < United States < North America < Earth, World