What is the meaning of street?

noun

  • A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.
    • usage: "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"
  • The part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel.
    • usage: "be careful crossing the street"
  • The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction.
    • usage: "she tried to keep her children off the street"
  • A situation offering opportunities.
    • usage: "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street"
  • People living or working on the same street.
    • usage: "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"
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APAWordNet. (2010). street. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/street/definitions/1208546
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