Street vs. Avenue

By Jaxson

  • 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.

Wikipedia
  • 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.

  • 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.

Wiktionary
  • 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”

Oxford Dictionary

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