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step street

step street noun: a public pedestrian thoroughfare, often officially designated, featuring a series of stairs instead of a traditional road to connect two streets; with a severe, steep elevation change.

step street: a public pedestrian thoroughfare, often officially designated, featuring a series of stairs instead...
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Noun

step street (plural step streets)

  1. A public pedestrian thoroughfare, often officially designated, featuring a series of stairs instead of a traditional road to connect two streets; with a severe, steep elevation change.
    • The Joker Stairs are an example of a step street.
    • The city of Pittsburgh has over 700 step streets.

Forms of step street

pluralstep streets

Questions about step street

What does step street mean?
Step street means a public pedestrian thoroughfare, often officially designated, featuring a series of stairs instead of a traditional road to connect two streets; with a severe, steep elevation change.
What part of speech is step street?
Step street is a noun.
What is the plural of step street?
The plural of step street is step streets.

Words near step street in the dictionary

  1. step short
  2. step show
  3. step shows
  4. step stool
  5. step stools
  6. step street
  7. step therapy
  8. step time
  9. step times
  10. step to
  11. step up

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