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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.
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is always a great word to know.
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Word Origin & History
avenue
c.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 "to come to, arrive," from L. advenire "to come to," from ad- "to" + venire "to come" (see venue).
EXPANDMeaning shifted to "a way of approach to a country-house," usually bordered by trees, hence, "a broad, tree-lined roadway" (1650s), then to "wide, main street" (1858, esp. in U.S.).
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