Street

Noun

 * 1) A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
 * Walk down the street.
 * 1) A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
 * I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
 * 1) The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3)  Street talk or slang.
 * 4) * 2008, Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features
 * Toaster is street for guns.
 * 1)  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:street

Derived terms

 * streetcar
 * streetcorner
 * streeted
 * streetfighter
 * streetlamp
 * streetlife
 * streetlight
 * streetscape


 * streetseller
 * streetwalker
 * streetward
 * streetwear
 * streetwise
 * streety


 * back street
 * civvy street
 * easy street
 * from the streets
 * high street
 * man on the street
 * one-way street
 * side street
 * street address
 * street art
 * street corner,
 * street cred, street credibility


 * street drug
 * street elbow
 * street food
 * street furniture
 * street hockey
 * street map
 * street market
 * street name
 * street racing
 * street smarts
 * street-sweeper
 * street team
 * street urchin
 * take to the streets
 * two-way street
 * word on the street


 * Bay Street
 * Downing Street
 * Fleet Street
 * Harley Street
 * Lombard Street
 * Main Street


 * Queer Street
 * Threadneedle Street
 * Wall Street

Adjectives for Street
dingy; medieval; winding; disreputable; squalid; crooked; blazing; quiet; sleepy; narrow; shaded; paved; silent; filthy; attractive; monotonous; littered; still; prominent; startled; unlovely; crowded; embowered; desolate; misty; impassable; moon-lit; forbidden; greasy; populous: unwatered; prominent; darksome; glaring; gutted; deep; darkling; sloppy; racy; straggling; arcaded; dusty; fearful; surging; charted; tortuous; peopled; intersecting; waking; dazzling; slippery; sunny; irregular; frozen; principal; wandering; obscure; deserted; adjacent; respectable; starry; twilight; glittering; little; clean-washed; ill-kept; palaced; corresponding; throngful; unpaved; spacious; rugged; murmuring; roaring; crooked; sultry; marching; residential; adroit; sunburnt; arid; gray; miry; welancholy; thronged.

Verbs for Street
amble about—; bedeck—; clutter—; deface —; front—; gain—; lay out—s; litter—; maintain—; patrol—; parade—; ramble thru—; roam—; strew—; stride thru—s; thread—s; throng in—; trudge along—; wander down—; —bakes; —flanks; — joins; —s shine; —swarms; —thunders.

Thesaurus
Autobahn, US highway, alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, chaussee, circle, circumferential, close, concourse, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, drag, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, passage, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, primary highway, private road, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, secondary road, speedway, state highway, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toll road, township road, track, turnpike, way, wynd

Alternative forms

 * streete

Etymology
stræt:, from West, from strata:, used as a short form of undefined:. The West Germanic form also gave Dutch straat:, German Straße: (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English); cognates from Latin include Portuguese estrada:, Italian strada:.

Translations

 * Albanian: rrugë
 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic:
 * Armenian: փողոց
 * Basque: kalean
 * Baure:
 * Belarusian: вуліца
 * Breton: straed, straedoù , ru , ruioù
 * Bulgarian: улица
 * Catalan: carrer
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 街, 路, 馬路, 马路
 * Czech: ulice
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: gøta
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: rúa
 * German:
 * Greek: οδός, δρόμος
 * Guaraní: ape (t-)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: गली, सड़क
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: strado
 * Indonesian: jalan, jalan raya
 * Interlingua: strata
 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 道, 道路, 通り
 * Korean: 거리
 * Kuna: igar
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani:, کۆڵان, شه‌قام


 * Latin: via, vicus (3)
 * Latvian: iela
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Northern Sami: gáhta, gáhtta
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: carrièra
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sràid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: улица
 * Roman: ulica
 * Skolt Sami: uu´lec
 * Slovak: ulica
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: kàyi’ína
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: వీధి (veedhi)
 * Tetum: lurón
 * Thai: ถนน
 * Tupinambá: apé (t-)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вулиця
 * Urdu: گلی, سڑک
 * Vietnamese: đường, đường phố, phố
 * Volapük: süt
 * Walloon: rowe
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: strjitte

Anagrams

 * retest
 * setter
 * tester