# Wall Street

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/

## Definitions
1. American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
2. The street that traditionally has been a principal locus for those entities and whose name is metonymically extended to refer to them.

## Etymology
From wall + street. The term is the name of a street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A., where the palisade of New Amsterdam was once located. The street is known for the many major U.S. financial institutions located there.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/wall-street