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.
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