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English

Etymology

French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir "approach", from Latin advenire "come to", from ad "to" + venire "come".

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈævəˌn(j)u/
SAMPA: /"{v@%n(j)u/
An audio transcript can be found at en-gb-avenue.ogg
An audio transcript can be found at en-us-avenue.ogg

Noun

A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

Translations

Chinese: 大道 (dadao)
Czech: {{t-|cs|třída|f}}
Dutch:
French:
German:
Greek, Modern: λεωφόρος (leophóros)
Hebrew: {{t-|he|שׂדרה|tr=sdera|sc=Hebr}}
Italian: ,
Japanese: 大道り (oudouri)

Korean: 도로 (doro)
Latin: advenita
Polish:
Portuguese:
Romanian: {{t-|ro|cale|f}}
Russian: {{t+|ru|проспект|m|tr=prospekt|sc=Cyrl}}
Spanish:
Swedish: aveny

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Avenue \Av"e*nue\, n. [F. avenue, fr. avenir to come to, L.
advenire. See Advene.]
1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by
which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of
exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land."
--Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry.
--Milman.
[1913 Webster]

2. The principal walk or approach to a house which is
withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach
bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus
bordered.
[1913 Webster]

An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. --W.
Black.
[1913 Webster]

3. A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet avenue
n 1: a line of approach; "they explored every avenue they could
think of"; "it promises to open new avenues to
understanding"
2: a wide street or thoroughfare [syn: boulevard]

Moby Dictionary
Autobahn , US highway , access , aisle , alley , alleyway , ambulatory ,
aperture , arcade , arterial , arterial highway , arterial street ,
artery , autoroute , autostrada , belt highway , blind alley , blowhole ,
boulevard , bypass , byway , camino real , carriageway , causeway ,
causey , channel , chaussee , chute , circumferential , cloister , close ,
colonnade , communication , conduit , connection , corduroy road ,
corridor , county road , court , covered way , crescent , cul-de-sac ,
dead-end street , debouch , defile , dike , dirt road , door , drag ,
drive , driveway , egress , emunctory , escape , estuary , exhaust , exit ,
expressway , ferry , floodgate , flume , ford , freeway , gallery ,
gravel road , highroad , highway , highways and byways , inlet ,
interchange , intersection , interstate highway , junction , lane ,
local road , loophole , main drag , main road , mews , motorway ,
opening , out , outcome , outfall , outgate , outgo , outlet , overpass ,
parkway , pass , passage , passageway , path , pave , paved road , pike ,
place , plank road , pore , port , portico , primary highway ,
private road , railroad tunnel , right-of-way , ring road , road ,
roadbed , roadway , route nationale , row , royal road , sally port ,
secondary road , sluice , speedway , spiracle , spout , state highway ,
street , superhighway , tap , terrace , thoroughfare , through street ,
thruway , toll road , township road , track , traject , trajet , tunnel ,
turnpike , underpass , vent , ventage , venthole , vomitory , way out ,
weir , wynd

Avenue, MD Zip code(s): 20609