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View synonyms for side street

side street

noun

  1. a street leading away from a main street; an unimportant street or one carrying but little traffic.


side street

noun

  1. a minor or unimportant street, esp one leading off a main thoroughfare


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Word History and Origins

Origin of side street1

First recorded in 1610–20

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Idioms and Phrases

A minor thoroughfare that carries little traffic, as in Our favorite hotel is on a quiet little side street . The side in this idiom means “off to one side, away from the main street.” [c. 1600] Also see back street .

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Example Sentences

The Mail says that CCTV shows the taxi pulled into the path of the motorcade from a side street.

The barracks is a squat building surrounded by sandbags on a side street near the city center.

They would have had better luck with a normal poster on the side street behind the square.

Brigitte Höss lives quietly on a leafy side street in Northern Virginia.

The parade took a right onto a side street, and everyone packed in a little closer, so the parade slowed down a bit.

She quite beamed with welcome, and they disentangled themselves into a side street, where there were empty posts.

Mrs. Prentice had run into a quiet side street, not two blocks from the cottage at the foot of Whiffle Street.

He caught a down car and got out just as the first prowl car came sirening its way into the side street curb.

As he followed him on uptown, down his side-street, Lamb had a curious sense of elation.

He turned into a side street, at the corner of which was a broken lamp bracket used for hanging a man not a week ago.

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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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