• Street

  A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone or brick. Portions may also be smoothed with asphalt, embedded with rails, or otherwise prepared to accommodate non-pedestrian traffic.

  Originally, the word street simply meant a paved road (Latin: via strata). The word street is still sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for road, for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a crucial modern distinction: a road’s main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction. Examples of streets include pedestrian streets, alleys, and city-centre streets too crowded for road vehicles to pass. Conversely, highways and motorways are types of roads, but few would refer to them as streets.

• Street (noun)

  A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

  “Walk down the street.”

• Street (noun)

  A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

  “I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.”

• Street (noun)

  The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

• Street (noun)

  The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.

• Street (noun)

  Street talk or slang.

• Street (noun)

  A great distance.

  “He’s streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.”

• Street (noun)

  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

• Street (noun)

  Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug

  “I got some pot cheap on the street.”

• Street (noun)

  Living in the streets.

  “Street cat.”

  “Street urchin.”

• Street (noun)

  By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

• Street (adjective)

  Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

• Street (verb)

  To build or equip with streets.

• Street (verb)

  To eject; to throw onto the streets.

• Street (verb)

  To heavily defeat.

• Street (verb)

  To go on sale.

• Street (verb)

  To proselytize in public.

• Avenue (noun)

  A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.

• Avenue (noun)

  A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.

• Avenue (noun)

  The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

• Avenue (noun)

  A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

  “There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.”

• Avenue (noun)

  A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.

• Street (noun)

  a public road in a city, town, or village, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides

  “45 Lake Street”

  “the narrow, winding streets of Edinburgh”

• Street (noun)

  Wall Street.

• Street (noun)

  the roads or public areas of a city or town

  “every week, fans stop me in the street”

• Street (noun)

  denoting someone who is homeless

  “the street kids of the city”

• Street (noun)

  relating to the outlook, values, or lifestyle of those young people who are perceived as composing a fashionable urban subculture

  “London street style”

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