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av⋅e⋅nue

  [av-uh-nyoo, -noo]
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–noun
1. a wide street or main thoroughfare.
2. a means of access or attainment: avenues of escape; avenues to greater power.
3. a way or means of entering into or approaching a place: the various avenues to India.
4. Chiefly British.
a. a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building.
b. a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.
Origin:
1590–1600; < F, lit., approach, n. use of fem. ptp. of avenir < L advenīre to come to. See a- 5 , venue

Synonyms:
1. See street.
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av·e·nue   (āv'ə-nōō', -nyōō')   
n.  
  1. Abbr. Ave. or Av. A wide street or thoroughfare.
    1. A broad roadway lined with trees.
    2. Chiefly British The drive leading from the main road up to a country house.
  3. A means of access or approach: new avenues of trade.

[French, from Old French, arrival, from feminine past participle of avenir, to approach, from Latin advenīre, to come to; see advent.]
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Avenue

Av"e*nue\, n. [F. avenue, fr. avenir to come to, L. advenire. See Advene.]

1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." --Macaulay.

On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. --Milman.

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 The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. --W. Black.

3. A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
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Language Translation for : Avenue
Spanish: avenida,
German: die Allee,
Japanese: 並木道
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avenue 
1600, "a way of approach" (originally a military word), from M.Fr. avenue "way of access," from O.Fr. avenue "act of approaching, arrival," from fem. of avenu, pp. of avenir "arrive," from L. advenire "to come," from ad- "to" + venire "to come" (see venue). Meaning shifted to "a way of approach to a country-house," usually bordered by trees, hence, "a broad, tree-lined roadway" (1654), then to "wide, main street" (1858, esp. in U.S.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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