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Meaning of 'street' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Street [ a.]
- Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.

Meaning of 'street' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . street [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
Example in sentence:
  • be careful crossing the street
Meaning (2):
- a situation offering opportunities
Example in sentence:
  • cooperation is a two-way street;
  • he worked both sides of the street
Meaning (3):
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
Example in sentence:
  • he lives on Nassau Street;
  • they walked the streets of the small town
Meaning (4):
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
Example in sentence:
  • she tried to keep her children off the street
Meaning (5):
- people living or working on the same street
Example in sentence:
  • the whole street protested the absence of street lights

Nearby Words:

strabism strabismometer strabismus strabotomy straddle straddled straddling stradometrical straggle straggled

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