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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