street
Other forms: streets
A street is a paved road with houses or buildings along the side. Cars, buses, bikes, and motorcycles travel in the street, while pedestrians use the sidewalk.
The street is what you drive a car on, but the word can also refer more generally to the neighborhood around the street, as in street theater or street fashion. And it can also mean a slightly dangerous, crime-filled environment: "It's rough out there on the street." In Old English, the word was stret, from the Late Latin phrase via strata or "paved road."
Definitions of street
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a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings“they walked the streets of the small town”“he lives on Nassau Street”
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Fleet Street
a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated
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Harley Street
a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located
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Lombard Street
a street in central London containing many of the major London banks
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Whitehall
a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices
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Strand
a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels
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Downing Street
a street of Westminster in London
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Pall Mall
a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs
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Quai d'Orsay
the street in Paris along the south bank of the Seine known for its governmental ministries
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Champs Elysees
a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes
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Bowery
a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
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Great White Way
a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters
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Park Avenue
a fashionable residential street in New York City
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Wall Street
a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance
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alley, alleyway, back street
a narrow street with walls on both sides
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avenue, boulevard
a wide street or thoroughfare
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cross street
a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it
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local road, local street
a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it
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high street, main street
street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town
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mews
street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings
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rue
(French) a street or road in France
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side street
a street intersecting a main street and terminating there
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frontage road, service road
a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property
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main drag
the main street of a town or city
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thoroughfare
a public road from one place to another
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the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel“be careful crossing the street”
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one-way street
a street on which vehicular traffic is allowed to move in only one direction
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two-way street
a street on which vehicular traffic can move in either of two directions
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thoroughfare
a public road from one place to another
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one-way street
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people living or working on the same street“the whole street protested the absence of street lights”
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neighborhood, neighbourhood
people living near one another
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neighborhood, neighbourhood
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the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction“she tried to keep her children off the street”
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environment
the totality of surrounding conditions
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environment
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a situation offering opportunities“he worked both sides of the street”“cooperation is a two-way street”
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chance, opportunity
a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
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chance, opportunity
Pronunciation
US
/strit/
UK
/strit/
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