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Plural of avenue

regular plural

The plural of avenue is avenues.

Forms of avenue

Singularavenue /ˈæv.əˌnjuː/
Pluralavenues
Countablecountable

Avenues in a sentence

  • Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south.2011, Time Out Los Angeles, →ISBN, page 78
  • The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west; numbered streets run north–south.2014, Adrienne Onofri, Walking Queens, →ISBN
  • Penylan is known for its Edwardian period houses and tree-lined avenues.From the entry Penylan
  • Gaillard had tried to show that the avenues had a solstitial orientation.2000, Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology, page 214. From the entry solstitial
  • Encroachment into potential flood avenues resulted in jumpouts, flooding, and extensive siltation.1995, John E. Costa, Natural and Anthropogenic Influences in Fluvial Geomorphology: The Wolman volume, page 210. From the entry jumpout

Meaning of avenue

  1. noun A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
  2. 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.
  3. noun The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

Full definition of avenue

Questions about the plural of avenue

What is the plural of avenue?
The plural of avenue is avenues.
Is avenue countable?
Avenue is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: avenue (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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