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streetlife

streetlife noun: life as lived by ordinary people in urban streets.

Noun

streetlife (uncountable)

  1. Life as lived by ordinary people in urban streets.
    • During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find...2002, Charles Hebbert, Dan Richardson, The Rough Guide to Budapest, 2nd edition, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 73

Origin of streetlife

From street + life.

Questions about streetlife

What does streetlife mean?
Streetlife means life as lived by ordinary people in urban streets.
What part of speech is streetlife?
Streetlife is a noun.

Words near streetlife in the dictionary

  1. streetlamps
  2. streetless
  3. streetlessness
  4. streetlet
  5. streetlets
  6. streetlife
  7. streetlight
  8. streetlight effect
  9. streetlighting
  10. streetlights
  11. streetlike

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