street
IPA: strˈit
noun
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- (specifically, US) 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.
- (attributive) Living in the streets.
- (uncountable, slang) Streetwise slang.
- (figuratively) A great distance.
- (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- (countable) A surname.
- A placename:
- A small village in Branscombe parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SY1888).
- A large village and civil parish in Mendip district, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST4836).
- A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Mendip district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6750).
- A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
- An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
- (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street. [(originally US, metonymically) American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.]
verb
- To build or equip with streets.
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
- To go on sale.
- (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
adjective
- (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
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Examples of "street" in Sentences
- The man dodders on the street.
- The bakery was open to the street.
- The horse is loping on the street.
- The streets are empty and desolate.
- There was a car crash down the street.
- The silence in the street was absolute.
- The money is in the bank not on the streets.
- In Panama, there was rejoicing in the streets.
- Canter Road is located across the street from the Summit at Lenox apartments.
- Wiggins is a street urchin in London and head of the Baker Street Irregulars.
- San Pancho's main street is cobblestoned, which is a true luxury in Mexico, especially in the rainy season.
- You mean the tax payers who are funding all the lovely looking during the day street lights that are shining up into the sky instead of down into the *street*?
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- "Burst himself through my bedroom-door," continued Mrs Denman, "with lime and charcoal and brick-dust and water streaming down his face -- f-fo-olded me in his arms, bore me out into the street -- the _street_!
- The main street is very busy weekend afternoons so is wise to pick other days or hours to visit there, but heading into Tzintzuntzan the highway just as easily bypasses the main street, though do visit the shops in Quiroga at some point in your stay.
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- It’s not cool to say the gaze is fine when its coming from an attractive, professional, nice young man across the bar or it’s fine when its the subject of the colloquial ‘no, he likes you, I’ve seen the way he looks at you,’ but the gaze is not ok when its just someone on the street, someone ’street’ looking or whatever.