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street

Pronunciation: /stɹiːt/

The English word “street” has 18 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
  2. A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
  3. The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
  4. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
  5. 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.
  6. An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
  7. Living in the streets.
  8. Streetwise slang.
  9. People in general, as a source of information.
  10. A great distance.
  11. Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
  12. A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

adjective

  1. Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

verb

  1. To build or equip with streets.
  2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
  3. To heavily defeat.
  4. To go on sale.
  5. To proselytize in public.

Etymology

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”).…

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