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streetwards

streetwards adverb: toward the street.

Adverb

streetwards (not comparable)

  1. Toward the street.
    • It was a large front room on the first floor, over a chandler's shop in an old-fashioned house in Montague Street, Whitechapel. Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square.1931, Israel Zangwill, The King of Schnorrers: Grotesques and Fantasies

Origin of streetwards

From street + -wards.

Questions about streetwards

What does streetwards mean?
Streetwards means toward the street.
What part of speech is streetwards?
Streetwards is an adverb.

Words near streetwards in the dictionary

  1. streetwalkers
  2. streetwalking
  3. streetwall
  4. streetwalls
  5. streetward
  6. streetwards
  7. streetway
  8. streetways
  9. streetwear
  10. streetwisdom
  11. streetwise

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