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av⋅e⋅nue

  [av-uh-nyoo, -noo]
–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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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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Word Origin & History

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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