Street
A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as tarmac, concrete, cobblestone or brick. Portions may also be smoothed with asphalt, embedded with rails, or otherwise prepared to accommodate non-pedestrian traffic.
Originally, the word street simply meant a paved road (Latin: via strata). The word street is still sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for road, for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a crucial modern distinction: a road’s main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction. Examples of streets include pedestrian streets, alleys, and city-centre streets too crowded for road vehicles to pass. Conversely, highways and motorways are types of roads, but few would refer to them as streets.
Locality (noun)
The fact or quality of having a position in space.
Locality (noun)
The features or surroundings of a particular place.
Locality (noun)
The condition of being local.
Locality (noun)
The situation or position of an object.
Locality (noun)
An activities; a neighbourhood.
Locality (noun)
Limitation to a county, district, or place.
“locality of trial”
Locality (noun)
The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Street (noun)
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
“Walk down the street.”
Street (noun)
A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
“I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.”
Street (noun)
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
Street (noun)
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.
Street (noun)
Street talk or slang.
Street (noun)
A great distance.
“He’s streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.”
Street (noun)
Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
Street (noun)
Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug
“I got some pot cheap on the street.”
Street (noun)
Living in the streets.
“Street cat.”
“Street urchin.”
Street (noun)
By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.
Street (adjective)
Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
Street (verb)
To build or equip with streets.
Street (verb)
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
Street (verb)
To heavily defeat.
Street (verb)
To go on sale.
Street (verb)
To proselytize in public.
Street (noun)
a public road in a city, town, or village, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides
“45 Lake Street”
“the narrow, winding streets of Edinburgh”
Street (noun)
Wall Street.
Street (noun)
the roads or public areas of a city or town
“every week, fans stop me in the street”
Street (noun)
denoting someone who is homeless
“the street kids of the city”
Street (noun)
relating to the outlook, values, or lifestyle of those young people who are perceived as composing a fashionable urban subculture
“London street style”