Feedback
Street
Your browser does not support the audio element.
Your browser does not support the audio element.
Meaning
Noun
●
A
paved
part of
road
, usually in a
village
or a town.
●
A
road
as above, but including the
sidewalks
(pavements) and buildings.
●
In American English & Roads:
The
roads
that
run
perpendicular
to
avenues
in a
grid
layout.
●
Metonymic senses:
The people who
live in
such
a road
, as a neighborhood.
The people who
spend
a
great deal
of time
on the street
in
urban
areas, especially, the
young
, the
poor
, the
unemployed
, and those
engaged
in
illegal
activities.
An
illicit
or
contraband
source
, especially of drugs.
●
In Finance:
Metonymic senses:
Ellipsis of Wall Street.
●
Living in the streets.
●
Streetwise slang.
●
A great distance.
●
In Poker:
Each of the three
opportunities
that
players
have to
bet
, after the
flop
,
turn
and river.
●
In Sports:
A
style
of
skateboarding
featuring
typically
urban
obstacles.
Adj
●
Having
street cred
;
conforming
to
modern
urban
trends.
Verb
●
To
build
or
equip
with streets.
●
To
eject
; to
throw
onto the streets.
●
In Sports:
To
heavily
defeat.
●
To
go on
sale.
●
In Mormonism:
To
proselytize
in public.
Name
●
A surname.
●
A placename:
A small
village
in Branscombe
parish
, East Devon
district
, Devon, England (OS
grid
ref
SY1888).
●
A placename:
A large
village
and
civil parish
in Mendip
district
, Somerset, England (OS
grid
ref
ST4836).
●
A placename:
A
hamlet
in Holcombe
parish
, Mendip
district
, Somerset (OS
grid
ref
ST6750).
●
A placename:
A
village
in County Westmeath, Ireland.
●
A placename:
An
unincorporated
community
in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
Sourced from
Wiktionary
Origin
street
English
streete
Middle English (1100-1500)
Sourced from
Etym
Related
Sidewalk
Boulevard
Highway
Neighborhood
Freeway
Footpath
City
Town
St.
Avenue
Plaza
Pavement
Lane
Park
Mall
House
Beach
Downtown
Roads
Terrace
Neighbourhood
District
Alley
Bus
Corner
Hall
Promenade
Campus
Parkway
Floor
Blvd
Garden
Village
Walkway
Esplanade
Square
Building
Bridge
Subway
Hill
Car
Interstate
River
Bay
Roadside
Island
Waterfront
Sidewalks
Pier
Suburb
Township
Hotel
Palace
Wall
Main Road
Main Drag
Parking Lot
Car Park
Bike Path
More
Rhymes
Eat
Peat
Feat
Feet
Meat
Pete
Meet
Beet
Leet
Heat
Yeet
Seat
Neat
Teat
Mete
Deet
Beat
Wheat
Sleet
Crete
Elite
Sweet
Skeet
Abeat
Pleat
Tweet
Suite
Bleat
Cheat
Greet
Cleat
Sheet
Fleet
Treat
Deceit
Defeat
Deheat
Delete
Upbeat
Effete
Unseat
Gamete
Reheat
Repeat
Street
Petite
Retreat
Offbeat
Replete
Preheat
Receipt
Deplete
Excrete
Accrete
Overeat
Conceit
Secrete
Entreat
Compete
Concrete
Complete
Re-Treat
Discreet
Discrete
Mistreat
Undereat
Overheat
Aesthete
Underheat
Underseat
Locuplete
Superheat
Indiscreet
Stylesheet
Incomplete
Bittersweet
Bon AppéTit
More
Join 10 million students and professionals writing 70% faster at QuillBot.com
Start writing better