Wall Street

Meaning

Proper Noun

• street Manhattan (borough) city, New York New York (state) USA (country), where the palisade of New Amsterdam was once located.
• American financial markets, financial institutions as a whole or by extension, big-business interests.

Related

Similar words

• the Street

Opposite words

• Main Street

Origin

• wall + street. From being a street where the city wall once ran.
• From the name of a street located in Manhattan, where many financial institutions are located.