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A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

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#1·Apr 27, 2026

A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
Origin: , from from , an early borrowing from (via) paved (road), from , past participle of stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave, from . . The vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to in West Saxon and in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to and in Middle English, and in Early Modern English, and finally in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep. Cognate with , strete, street, , stroot, struat (North Frisian forms are borrowed from ), , , , (see doublet ), , Straße, , Straote. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 27, 2026

A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
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  • “Elderly man's heart massaged back to life by paramedics after brutal attack in Birmingham street Razvan Mut stabbed, kicked, punched and stamped on Stephen Watts during a 13 minute sustained attack, hitting him with a chair leg more than 60 times”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Commuters at Cabot Circus South stand in the 10°C air as the outbound m2 falls 17 minutes behind its morning target. The Long Ashton service is currently caught in the Bond Street South rush, rendering the Scania's extra comfort features a distant prospect for those waiting.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “survival and street storytelling into”

  • “Billy on the street trying to get Billy”

  • “on the street. I'm not until I'm in”

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#3·Apr 27, 2026

(specifically, US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.

I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
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  • “Significant development. Galaxy's crypto infrastructure expertise combined with State Street's $4.7T+ servicing scale gives this institutional legitimacy. Solana continues to attract serious capital market participants - notable given the network's throughput advantages.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “This is significant. Galaxy and State Street launching a tokenized fund on Solana signals growing institutional comfort with the network. The tokenized asset space is maturing beyond just Bitcoin and Ethereum.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • ““All democrats, waste of human race”. Nice. I’ve tried talking to the cops always standing outside of my precinct down the street.I pass them daily. They barely acknowledge my existence. No hello, no nothing. Their culture seems very us vs them no matter who you are”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “That SWEEP fund matters: State Street bringing traditional finance infrastructure to Solana is institutional validation for the network. The PayPal selloff reflects ongoing concerns about profit margins in legacy fintech - not necessarily crypto-related.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “survival and street storytelling into”

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