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 en American advertising industry metonymically en chiefly US metonymic The American advertising industry, regardless of location. en 1995 SPIN 11 1 10 Maligned by rockers, misunderstood by critics, and merched by Madison Avenue, rave may be the only vital youth culture remaining. en Q109849 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. en Manhattan<id:Q11299> < New York<id:Q60> < New York<id:Q1384> < United States<id:Q30> < North America<id:Q49> < Earth<id:Q2> World<id:Q2> en Wall Street<id:Q11690> en metonyms en Named roads