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English

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Etymology

{{term|stræt||paved road, Roman road}}, from West Germanic, from late Latin , used as a short form of {{term||via strata|paved road}}. The West Germanic form also gave Dutch , German (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English); cognates from Latin include Portuguese , Italian .

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
  2. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
  3. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.


Usage notes

  • The term is used with the preposition . Something is in the street, but on the road. To "be on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often one associated with homelessness or crime. To "hear something on the street" means to learn about something through rumor.


Derived terms


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Street \Street\ (str[=e]t), n. [OE. strete, AS. str[=ae]t, fr.
L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p. p. of
sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See Strew,
and cf. Stratum, Stray, v. & a.]
1. Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now
commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by
dwellings or business houses.
[1913 Webster]

He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto
the field. --Coverdale.
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At home or through the high street passing.
--Milton.
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Note: In an extended sense, street designates besides the
roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border
the thoroughfare.
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His deserted mansion in Duke Street. --Macaulay.
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2. the roadway of a street[1], as distinguished from the
sidewalk; as, children playing in the street.
[PJC]

3. the inhabitants of a particular street; as, the whole
street knew about their impending divorce.
[PJC]

The street (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city
where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also,
figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street
would not take the bonds.

on the street,
(a) homeless.
(b) unemployed.
(a) not in prison, or released from prison; the murderer
is still on the street.

Street Arab, Street broker, etc. See under Arab,
Broker, etc.

Street door, a door which opens upon a street, or is
nearest the street.

street person, a homeless person; a vagrant.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Syn: See Way.
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WordNet street
n 1: a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined
with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small
town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"
2: the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part
of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel; "be careful
crossing the street"
3: the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in
which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and
dereliction; "she tried to keep her children off the
street"
4: a situation offering opportunities; "he worked both sides of
the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street"
5: people living or working on the same street; "the whole
street protested the absence of street lights"
Moby Dictionary
Autobahn , US highway , alley , alleyway , arterial , arterial highway ,
arterial street , artery , autoroute , autostrada , avenue ,
belt highway , blind alley , boulevard , bypass , byway , camino real ,
carriageway , causeway , causey , chaussee , circle , circumferential ,
close , concourse , corduroy road , county road , court , crescent ,
cul-de-sac , dead-end street , dike , dirt road , drag , drive ,
driveway , expressway , freeway , gravel road , highroad , highway ,
highways and byways , interstate highway , lane , local road ,
main drag , main road , mews , motorway , parkway , passage , path , pave ,
paved road , pike , place , plank road , primary highway , private road ,
right-of-way , ring road , road , roadbed , roadway , route nationale ,
row , royal road , secondary road , speedway , state highway ,
superhighway , terrace , thoroughfare , through street , thruway ,
toll road , township road , track , turnpike , way , wynd


Street The street called "Straight" at Damascus (Acts 9:11) is "a long broad street, running from east to west, about a mile in length, and forming the principal thoroughfare in the city." In Oriental towns streets are usually narrow and irregular and filthy (Ps. 18:42; Isa. 10:6). "It is remarkable," says Porter, "that all the important cities of Palestine and Syria Samaria, Caesarea, Gerasa, Bozrah, Damascus, Palmyra, had their 'straight streets' running through the centre of the city, and lined with stately rows of columns. The most perfect now remaining are those of Palmyra and Gerasa, where long ranges of the columns still stand.", Through Samaria, etc.
STREET. A road in a village or city. In common parlance the word street is equivalent to highway. 4 Serg. & Rawle, 108. 2. A permission to the public for the space of eight, or even of six years, to use a street without bar or impediment, is evidence from which a dedication to the public maybe inferred. 11 East, R. 376; See 2 N. Hamp. 513; 4 B. & A. 447; 3 East, R. 294; 1 Law Intell. 134; 2 Smith's Lead. Cas. 94, n.; 2 Pick. R. 162; 2 Verm. R. 480; 5 Taunt. R. 125; S. C. 1 E. C. L. R. 34; 4 Camp. R. 169; 1 Camp. R. 260: 7 B. & C. 257; S. C. 14 E. C. L. R. 39; 5 B & Ald. 454; S. C. 7 E. C. L. R. 159; 1 Blackf. 44; 2 Wend. 472; 8 Wend. 85; 11 Wend. 486; 6 Pet. 431; 1 Paige, 510; and the article Dedication.
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