street
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noun
1.
a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
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.
adjective
7.
of, on, or adjoining a street: a street door just off the sidewalk.
8.
taking place or appearing on the street: street fight; street musicians.
10.
suitable for everyday wear: street clothes; street dress.
11.
retail: the street price of a new computer; the street value of a drug.
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Street
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English strēt, strǣt; cognate with Dutch straat, German Strasse; all ≪ Latin (via) strāta paved (road); see stratum
before 900; Middle English; Old English strēt, strǣt; cognate with Dutch straat, German Strasse; all ≪ Latin (via) strāta paved (road); see stratum
Related forms
street·less, adjective
street·like, adjective
in·ter·street, adjective
Synonyms
1. roadway, concourse. 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.
1. roadway, concourse. 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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World English Dictionary
street (striːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a. (capital when part of a name) a public road that is usually lined with buildings, esp in a town: Oxford Street |
| b. (as modifier): a street directory | |
| 2. | the buildings lining a street |
| 3. | the part of the road between the pavements, used by vehicles |
| 4. | the people living, working, etc, in a particular street |
| 5. | (modifier) of or relating to the urban counterculture: street style; street drug |
| 6. | man in the street an ordinary or average citizen |
| 7. | on the streets |
| a. earning a living as a prostitute | |
| b. homeless | |
| 8. | informal streets ahead of superior to, more advanced than, etc |
| 9. | informal streets apart markedly different |
| 10. | informal up one's street, right up one's street (just) what one knows or likes best |
| —vb | |
| 11. | (Austral) to outdistance |
| [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 | |
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Word Origin & History
street
O.E. stret (Mercian), stræt (W.Saxon), early W.Gmc. borrowing from L.L. strata, used elliptically for via strata "paved road," from fem. pp. of L. sternere "lay down, spread out, pave," from PIE *stre-to- "to stretch, extend," from base *stere- "to spread, extend, stretch out" (see
structure). The Latin is also the source of Sp. estrada, O.Fr. estrée, It. strada. Originally of Roman roads (Watling Street, Icknield Street, etc.), later in O.E. it acquired a dialectal sense of "straggling village." "In the Middle Ages, a road or way was merely a direction in which people rode or went, the name street being reserved for the made road." [Weekley] Used since c.1400 to mean "the people in the street;" modern sense of "the realm of the people as the source of political support" dates from 1931. Man in the street "ordinary person, non-expert" is attested from 1831. Street-car is attested from 1862. Street-walker "common prostitute" first recorded 1592. Street people is from 1967; street smarts is from 1972; street-credibility is from 1979.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Street definition
The street called "Straight" at Damascus (Acts 9:11) is "a long broad street, running from east to west, about a mile in length, and forming the principal thoroughfare in the city." In Oriental towns streets are usually narrow and irregular and filthy (Ps. 18:42; Isa. 10:6). "It is remarkable," says Porter, "that all the important cities of Palestine and Syria Samaria, Caesarea, Gerasa, Bozrah, Damascus, Palmyra, had their 'straight streets' running through the centre of the city, and lined with stately rows of columns. The most perfect now remaining are those of Palmyra and Gerasa, where long ranges of the columns still stand.", Through Samaria, etc.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases
street
see back street; easy street; man in the street; on the street; side street; work both sides of the street.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Think of it this way: when you walk to the local convenience store to get a squishy, you have to cross the street.
Look from the street, though, because no visitors are allowed.
He showed us how to light the street in the picture with the body in the rain.
The giant computer maker's stately headquarters sprawls along the right side of the street, overlooking a maze of parking lots.
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