street

IPA: strˈit

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.]

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