Great White Way
Great White Way proper noun: broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
Proper noun
the Great White Way
- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
- But Broadway's economic survival would be a Pyrrhic victory of sorts if artistic invention is slowly leached out in an attempt to make the Great White Way a New York outpost of the theme park–ing of America.2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 28
- The Great White Way was full of […] theater mavens and gamblers, goons and drunks—and also crooks, crooks aplenty in service to the next big score.2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 136
Origin of Great White Way
So called from its brilliant illumination at night.
Questions about Great White Way
- What does Great White Way mean?
- Great White Way means broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters.
- What part of speech is Great White Way?
- Great White Way is a proper noun.
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