street
[ʃt͡ʃɹiːt]/stɹiːt/
street noun: a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. Also the ellipsis of Wall Street.
Noun
street (plural streets)
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
- The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
- I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
- Synonyms:
- way
- The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- 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.
- Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- I got some pot cheap on the street.
- The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
- Living in the streets.
- a street cat
- a street urchin
- Streetwise slang.
- Toaster is street for guns.2008, Andrew Fleming, Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features
- People in general, as a source of information.
- Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
- A great distance.
- He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
- England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.2011, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
- Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
Adjective
street (comparative more street, superlative most street)
- Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
- Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin
Verb
street (third-person singular simple present streets, present participle streeting, simple past and past participle streeted)
- To build or equip with streets.
- There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and...1619 July 14 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Sir James Crofts. Antwerp.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey...
- After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any...1999, Ralph C. Hancock, America, the West, and Liberal Education, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 89
- To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.1959, The Irish Digest
- To heavily defeat.
- Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press, published 2013, →ISBN, part II, 96
- But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.2008, Steve Menzies, Norman Tasker, chapter 1, in Beaver: The Steve Menzies Story, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 5
- To go on sale.
- He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD2003, Billboard, page 55
- “Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD.2005 February 12, Deborah Evans Price, “Winans Ready To ‘Celebrate’ New Album After Illness”, in Billboard, volume 117, number 7, page 18
- To proselytize in public.
- A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.2000, Dow Glenn Ostlund, The Lost Tribes of Isuraeru: Belief Tales Among Mormon Missionaries in Japan
- Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.2007, John Patrick Hoffmann, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 94
Proper noun capitalized: Street
Street (countable and uncountable, plural Streets)
- A surname.
- A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6208).
- A small village in Branscombe parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY1888).
- A hamlet in Nether Wyresdale parish, Wyre district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5252).
- A hamlet in Glaisdale parish, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ7304).
- A large village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST4836).
- A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6750).
- A hamlet in Winsham parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3507).
- A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
- Synonyms:
- Streete
- An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
Also used as
street is also the ellipsis of Wall Street.
street meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
street in Hindi
- paved part of road in a village or a town
- गली galī, सड़क saṛak
street in Tamil
- paved part of road in a village or a town
- வீதி vīti, தெரு teru
street in Marathi
- paved part of road in a village or a town
- मार्ग mārga, रस्ता rastā
street in Urdu
- paved part of road in a village or a town
- گَلی galī, سَڑَک saṛak, راسْتَہ rāsta
More languagesFewer languages
- street in Bengali
- রাস্তা rasta
- street in Telugu
- వీధి vīdhi
- street in Malayalam
- തെരുവ് teruvŭ
- street in Kannada
- ರಸ್ತೆ raste, ಬೀದಿ bīdi, ಮಾರ್ಗ mārga
- street in Punjabi
- ਗਲੀ galī, گَلی galī
- street in Gujarati
- સડક saḍak
- street in Odia
- ଗଳି gaḷi
- street in Sanskrit
- वीथी vīthī
- street in Sinhala
- වීදිය wīdiya
- street in Assamese
- বাট bat, আলি ali, আলিবাট alibat
- street in Pashto
- نونګړی nungṛay, کوڅه kuśa
- street in Tagalog
- daan, kalye
- street in Arabic
- شَارِع šāriʕ, زَنَقَة zanaqa
- street in Malay
- jalan, lebuh
- street in Indonesian
- jalan, jalan raya
- street in Thai
- ถนน tà-nǒn
- street in Vietnamese
- đường, đường phố, phố
- street in Myanmar
- လမ်းကြား lam:kra:, လမ်း lam:
Examples of street in a sentence
- There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.2011, Robert White, Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:
- They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson.2010, Eugene Woodbury, chapter 9, in Tokyo South, Peaks Island Press, →ISBN, page 86:
Synonyms of street
Forms of street
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | streets |
| alternative form (obsolete) | streete |
| alternative form (obsolete) | streat |
| alternative form (obsolete) | streate |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more street |
| superlative | most street |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | streets |
| present participle | streeting |
| past participle | streeted |
| past | streeted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Streets |
Origin of street
Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Doublet of estrade and stratum. The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep. Cognates Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”)...
Words formed from street
- Adwick le Street
- Baker Street
- Barton-le-Street
- Bay Street
- Bow Street
- Broad Street
- Brook Street
- Canal Street
- Chester-le-Street
- Collier Street
- Cross Street
- Dalal Street
- Downing Street
- Farthing Street
- Fenchurch Street
- Fleet Street
- Fox Street
- Green Street
- Green Street Green
- Hammond Street
- Hamstreet
- Ham Street
- Harley Street
- High Street
- Kent Street
- K Street
- Liverpool Street
- Lombard Street
- Long Street
- Low Street
- Main Street
- Mill Street
- Mountain Street
- New Street
- Oakle Street
- Park Street
- Sharnal Street
- Silver Street
- Sole Street
- South Street
- Stiff Street
- Street Lane
- the Street
- Threadneedle Street
- Turkey Street
- U Street
- Wall Street
- Weavering Street
- Wharram le Street
- 121 George Street
- Arab street
- arterial street
- Baker Street Irregular
- bye-street
- civvy street
- cloud street
- complete street
- easy street
- food street
- jump street
Phrases with street
- street ape
- street art
- street bum
- street kid
- street map
- street rod
- back street
- Grub Street
- play street
- side street
- slow street
- step street
141 more phrasesFewer phrases
- stop street
- street apes
- street Arab
- street ball
- street bike
- street bums
- street corn
- street cred
- street date
- street drug
- street food
- street gang
- street girl
- street kids
- street lamp
- street luge
- street maps
- street nail
- street name
- street race
- street sign
- street taco
- street talk
- street team
- street work
- trap street
- Cable Street
- ghost street
- local street
- paper street
- Queer Street
- snack street
- street apple
- street Arabs
- street BASIC
- street bikes
- street child
- street crime
- street dance
- street dates
- street drugs
- street elbow
- street fight
- street foods
- street gangs
- street girls
- street lamps
- street level
- street light
- street money
- street names
- street organ
- street party
- street piano
- street queen
- street raced
- street races
- street shoes
- street signs
- street smart
- street stock
- street tacos
- street teams
- street value
- street works
- Swell Street
- Karman street
- Kármán street
- living street
- on the street
- Sesame Street
- street appeal
- street apples
- street artist
- street BASICs
- street corner
- street crimes
- street dancer
- street elbows
- street fights
- street hockey
- street lights
- street market
- street mirror
- street number
- street organs
- street pianos
- street pigeon
- street queens
- street racing
- street smarts
- street urchin
- street values
- street walker
- street wisdom
- street worker
- Sussex Street
- Bankova Street
- one-way street
- street address
- street artists
- street cleaner
- street clothes
- street corners
- street dancers
- street fighter
- street library
- street markets
- street mirrors
- street numbers
- street parties
- street pigeons
- street railway
- street shitter
- street sweeper
- street theater
- street theatre
- street urchins
- street walkers
- street workers
- street workout
- surface street
- through street
- two-way street
- walking street
- Watling Street
- dead-end street
- Holywell Street
- street children
- street cleaners
- street fighters
- street fighting
- street musician
- street railways
- street shitters
- street sweepers
- street takeover
- street theaters
- street theatres
- street workouts
- 23 Skidoo Street
Words that rhyme with street
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
- keet
Questions about street
- What does street mean?
- Street means a paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- What is street in Hindi?
- Street in Hindi is गली (galī), सड़क (saṛak). See Street meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use street in a sentence?
- There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.
- What part of speech is street?
- Street can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce street?
- Street is pronounced /stɹiːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of street?
- The plural of street is streets.
Words near street in the dictionary
Source and license
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