street

[ street ]

/ strit /

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noun

a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.

such a thoroughfare together with adjacent buildings, lots, etc.: Houses, lawns, and trees composed a very pleasant street.

the roadway of such a thoroughfare, as distinguished from the sidewalk: to cross a street.

a main way or thoroughfare, as distinguished from a lane, alley, or the like.

the inhabitants or frequenters of a street: The whole street gossiped about the new neighbors.

the Street, Informal.

the section of a city associated with a given profession or trade, especially when concerned with business or finance, as Wall Street.
the principal theater and entertainment district of any of a number of U.S. cities.

adjective

of, on, or adjoining a street: a street door just off the sidewalk.

taking place or appearing on the street: street fight; street musicians.

coarse; crude; vulgar: street language.

suitable for everyday wear: street clothes; street dress.

retail: the street price of a new computer; the street value of a drug.

Idioms for street

on/in the street,

without a home: You'll be out on the street if the rent isn't paid.
without a job or occupation; idle.
out of prison or police custody; at liberty.

up one's street, British. alley¹(def 7).

Origin of street

before 900; Middle English; Old English strēt, strǣt; cognate with Dutch straat, German Strasse; all ≪ Latin ( via) strāta paved (road); see stratum

SYNONYMS FOR street

1 roadway, concourse. Street, alley, avenue, boulevard all refer to public ways or roads in municipal areas. A street is a road in a village, town, or city, especially a road lined with buildings. An alley is a narrow street or footway, especially at the rear of or between rows of buildings or lots. An avenue is properly a prominent street, often one bordered by fine residences and impressive buildings, or with a row of trees on each side. A boulevard is a beautiful, broad street, lined with rows of stately trees, especially used as a promenade. In some cities street and avenue are used interchangeably, the only difference being that those running one direction (say, north and south) are given one designation and those crossing them are given the other.

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OTHER WORDS FROM street

street·less, adjective street·like, adjective in·ter·street, adjective

Words nearby street

streator, streek, streeking, streel, streep, street, street arab, street certificate, street christian, street cleaner, street cred

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When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.

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The gunman then burst from the restaurant and fled down the street with the other man.

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The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

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Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

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As they entered the street it seemed as if they could hardly pass through.

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While looking out of that top-floor window one day I noticed a cat on a window-ledge of the house across the street.

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The young man was taken through the house and conducted along the street as far as the next ingress to the walls.

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Across the street he saw a window with a display of camping equipment, portable stoves, boots, rifles.

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For his passage the street had been cleared, the guards deployed, the houses decked.

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British Dictionary definitions for street

street

/ (striːt) /

noun

(capital when part of a name) a public road that is usually lined with buildings, esp in a townOxford Street
(as modifier)a street directory

the buildings lining a street

the part of the road between the pavements, used by vehicles

the people living, working, etc, in a particular street

(modifier) of or relating to the urban counterculture street style; street drug

man in the street an ordinary or average citizen

on the streets

earning a living as a prostitute
homeless

streets ahead of informal superior to, more advanced than, etc

streets apart informal markedly different

up one's street or right up one's street informal (just) what one knows or likes best

verb (tr)

Australian to outdistance

Word Origin for street

Old English strǣt, from Latin via strāta paved way ( strāta, from strātus, past participle of sternere to stretch out); compare Old Frisian strēte, Old High German strāza; see stratus

Idioms and Phrases with street

street

see back street; easy street; man in the street; on the street; side street; work both sides of the street.

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