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Meaning of "Silicon Alley" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SILICON ALLEY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SILICON ALLEY

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Silicon Alley is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SILICON ALLEY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Silicon Alley

Silicon Alley is a nickname for an area with a concentration of Internet and new media companies in Manhattan, New York City. Originally, the term referred to the cluster of such companies extending from the Flatiron District down to SoHo and TriBeCa along the Broadway corridor, but as the location of these companies spread out, it became a general term referring to the dot com industry in New York City as a whole. The name derives from Silicon Valley in California. Other plays off this name include Silicon Beach in Los Angeles and Silicon peach in Atlanta.

Definition of Silicon Alley in the English dictionary

The definition of Silicon Alley in the dictionary is an area of New York City in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SILICON ALLEY

Silicon Fen
Silicon Glen
silicon rectifier
Silicon Valley

WORDS THAT END LIKE SILICON ALLEY

alley
Alpine Valley
bowling alley
Death Valley
galley
gulley
half-volley
Halley
lilies of the valley
lily of the valley
pulley
rift valley
Shelley
Silicon Valley
Tilley
Tin Pan Alley
trolley
valley
volley
Woolley

Synonyms and antonyms of Silicon Alley in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Silicon Alley» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SILICON ALLEY

Find out the translation of Silicon Alley to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Silicon Alley from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Silicon Alley» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

硅巷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Silicon Alley
570 millions of speakers

English

Silicon Alley
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिलिकॉन वैली
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

زقاق السيليكون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Silicon Alley
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Silicon Alley
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিলিকন এলি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Silicon Alley
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Silicon Alley
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Silicon Alley
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シリコンアレー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

실리콘 앨리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Silicon Alley
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Silicon Alley
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிலிக்கான் அலே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिलिकॉन गल्ली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Silicon Alley
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Silicon Alley
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Silicon Alley
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Silicon Alley
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Silicon Alley
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Silicon Alley
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Silicon Alley
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Silicon Alley
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Silicon Alley
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Silicon Alley

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SILICON ALLEY»

The term «Silicon Alley» is normally little used and occupies the 121.392 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SILICON ALLEY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Silicon Alley

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SILICON ALLEY»

Discover the use of Silicon Alley in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Silicon Alley and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Silicon Alley: The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Michael Indergaard, 2004
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New York Magazine
NE OF THE SUREST SIGNS THAT Silicon Alley — that enclave of high-tech companies clustered mostly along Lower Broadway — has come into its own is that two publications are duking it out for dominance in covering the business and ...
3
Digital Hustlers
Here are entrepreneurs like Kevin O'Connor of DoubleClick, Fernando Espuelas of StarMedia, and Craig Kanarick of Razorfish; commentators like Omar Wasow of MSNBC and Jason McCabe Calacanis of the Silicon Alley Reporter; and inimitable Alley ...
Casey Kait, Stephen Weiss, 2009
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Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Perspectives
The nexus of activity has been Silicon Alley, a new media district, which has captured the imagination with its edgy web designs and billions of dollars with its stock offerings. Even as a historic bull market reached its peak many notables ...
John Eade, Christopher Mele, 2011
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Bleeding Edge
Reading Bleeding Edge, tearing up at the beauty of its sadness or the punches of its hilarity, you may realize it as the 9/11 novel you never knew you needed... a necessary novel and one that literary history has been waiting for.
Thomas Pynchon, 2013
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No-collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs
who built Silicon Alley had long-term aims. The Alley had its own newspapers, magazines, trade associations, and lobby groups. In its heyday, hundreds of thousands of people worked there in fairly well- defined professional groupings.
Andrew Ross, 2004
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Articles on Economy of New York, Including: Silicon Alley, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
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The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory
In fact, Silicon Alley has pioneered in the short-lease, prebuilt, prewired office, what it calls the "plug 'n' go" system, which allows small businesses and casual workers to move in and plug into physical and cyber networks (Rothstein, 1998).
Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss, 2000
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Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative ...
In Venture Labor, Gina Neff investigates choices like these made by high-tech workers in New York City's "Silicon Alley" in the 1990s.
Gina Neff, 2012
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Entrepreneurship in Emerging Regions Around the World: ...
... (for example, lawyers, consultants, accountants and so on) to the presence of social networks, favorable government policies and a tolerant population that 92 3. Institutional transformation during the emergence of New York's Silicon Alley.
Phillip Hin Choi Phan, Sankaran Venkataraman, S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, 2008

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SILICON ALLEY»

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The start-ups that favour New York over Silicon Valley
New York's start-up scene has been booming, with the sector creating more than 10,000 jobs in the city over the past five years. Some talk of Silicon Alley as ... «BBC News, Dec 12»

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« EDUCALINGO. Silicon Alley [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/silicon-alley>. Apr 2024 ».
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