Word.ws English Dictionary

Cable Street

Cable Street proper noun: the Battle of Cable Street.

Proper noun

Cable Street

  1. (metonymically) The Battle of Cable Street.
    • Unlike Spain, Cable Street was a success and proved the turning point in the defeat of Fascism in Britain in that period.1986, AEU, Amalgamated Engineering Union, page 30
    • Third, Cable Street was a clear victory for the working-class against fascism, although its success was ensured by the united working-class campaign for better housing, which began with Paragon Mansions.1998, Jewish Culture and History, volume I, number 1, Frank Cass in conjunction with the Parkes Centre, University of Southampton, page 96

Origin of Cable Street

Cable Street, in the East End of London, started as a straight path along which hemp ropes were twisted into ships’ cables (i.e., ropes).

Words that rhyme with Cable Street

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Cable Street

What does Cable Street mean?
Cable Street means the Battle of Cable Street.
What part of speech is Cable Street?
Cable Street is a proper noun.

Words near Cable Street in the dictionary

  1. cable ships
  2. cable spaghetti
  3. cable station
  4. cable stations
  5. cable stitch
  6. Cable Street
  7. cable stripper
  8. cable strippers
  9. cable television
  10. cable terminal
  11. cable terminals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Cable Street (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-Cable Street.ogg.

Cite this entry: “Cable Street.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cable_street. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.