street

stɹiːt

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#1·3h ago

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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#2·3h ago

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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#3·3h ago

(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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