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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