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street

[ street ]

noun

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

    Synonyms: concourse, roadway

  2. such a thoroughfare together with adjacent buildings, lots, etc.:

    Houses, lawns, and trees composed a very pleasant street.

  3. the roadway of such a thoroughfare, as distinguished from the sidewalk:

    to cross a street.

  4. a main way or thoroughfare, as distinguished from a lane, alley, or the like.
  5. the inhabitants or frequenters of a street:

    The whole street gossiped about the new neighbors.

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


adjective

  1. of, on, or adjoining a street:

    a street door just off the sidewalk.

  2. taking place or appearing on the street:

    street fight; street musicians.

  3. coarse; crude; vulgar:

    street language.

  4. suitable for everyday wear:

    street clothes; street dress.

  5. retail:

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

street

/ striːt /

noun

    1. capital when part of a name a public road that is usually lined with buildings, esp in a town

      Oxford Street

    2. ( as modifier )

      a street directory

  1. the buildings lining a street
  2. the part of the road between the pavements, used by vehicles
  3. the people living, working, etc, in a particular street
  4. modifier of or relating to the urban counterculture

    street drug

    street style

  5. man in the street
    an ordinary or average citizen
  6. on the streets
    1. earning a living as a prostitute
    2. homeless
  7. streets ahead of informal.
    superior to, more advanced than, etc
  8. streets apart informal.
    markedly different
  9. up one's street or right up one's street informal.
    (just) what one knows or likes best
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to outdistance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • streetless adjective
  • streetlike adjective
  • inter·street adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of street1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English strēt, strǣt; cognate with Dutch straat, German Strasse; all ultimately from Latin (via) strāta “paved (road)”; stratum
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Word History and Origins

Origin of street1

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
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. on / in the street,
    1. without a home:

      You'll be out on the street if the rent isn't paid.

    2. without a job or occupation; idle.
    3. out of prison or police custody; at liberty.
  2. up one's street, British. alley 1( def 7 ).

More idioms and phrases containing 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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Synonym Study

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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Example Sentences

We will be reporting from the road and the streets in the leadup to and aftermath of Election Day.

From Ozy

In January, 1986, CW bet “you won’t have to wait a decade to see its like on the street.”

Open storefronts, and streets bustling with retail and sidewalk activity bring more “eyes,” and streets therefore feel safer for all.

So when I got back from Canada, I was quarantined for two weeks and that’s when everything started to really happen in terms of people actually getting in the streets or more getting in the streets.

From Ozy

When sheriff’s deputies arrested him, he was in the middle of a street in Jamul, trying to get hit by passing cars.

A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.

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

A Wall Street person should not be allowed to help oversee the Dodd-Frank reforms.

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

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

Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

"We will go to the Hotel de l'Europe, if you press it;" and away the cabriolet joggled over the roughly paved street.

While the door was open he caught a glimpse of the street outside—and of Glavis on the sidewalk below.

Then the two bodies of the men were buried, carrying them together from the street to the grave.

The height of the tower from the level of the street is 105 feet, the slated towers over the lateral pediments being smaller.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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