Definition of Street

1. Noun. A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings. "He lives on Nassau Street"


2. Noun. The part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel. "Be careful crossing the street"
Specialized synonyms: One-way Street, Two-way Street
Generic synonyms: Thoroughfare

3. Noun. The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction. "She tried to keep her children off the street"
Group relationships: Concrete Jungle
Generic synonyms: Environment

4. Noun. A situation offering opportunities. "Cooperation is a two-way street"
Language type: Colloquialism
Generic synonyms: Chance, Opportunity

5. Noun. People living or working on the same street. "The whole street protested the absence of street lights"
Generic synonyms: Neighborhood, Neighbourhood

Definition of Street

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

Definition of Street

1. a public thoroughfare [n -S]

Street Pictures

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Street

streamsides
streamy
stream of consciousness
stream orchid
streek
streeked
streeker
streekers
streeking
streeks
streel
streeled
streeling
streels
Streep
street (current term)
street-walk
streetcar
streetcars
streetcar track
streeted
streetier
streetlamp
streetlamps
streetlight
streetlights
streets
streetscape
streetscapes
streetwalk

Literary usage of Street

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1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Peter Augustin Daniel (1874)
"ES, 29, Osnaburgh St, Regent's Park, NW Gee, William, High street, Boston. Gerich, FE, 7, Mincing Lane, EC Gervinus, Madame, Heidelberg. ..."

2. Annual Report by Metropolitan Sewerage Commission, Massachusetts (1897)
"Hyde Park and continuing in said River street to a proposed street leading to the ... Following this proposed street to the river and deflecting to the ..."

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