Boulevard vs. Avenue

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  • Boulevard

    A boulevard (French, originally meaning bastion), often abbreviated Blvd, is a type of large road, usually running through a city.

    In modern American usage, it often means a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, often divided with a central median, and perhaps with roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery.

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  • Boulevard (noun)

    A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.

  • Boulevard (noun)

    The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.

  • Avenue (noun)

    A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.

  • Avenue (noun)

    A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.

  • Avenue (noun)

    The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

  • Avenue (noun)

    A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

    “There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.”

  • Avenue (noun)

    A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.

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