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adj
Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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name
A surname.
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Usage: countable
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name
A place in England:
A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6208).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in England:
A small village in Branscombe parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY1888).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in England:
A hamlet in Nether Wyresdale parish, Wyre district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5252).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in England:
A hamlet in Glaisdale parish, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ7304).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in England:
A large village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST4836).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in England:
A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6750).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in England:
A hamlet in Winsham parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3507).
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: Streete
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name
An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
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noun
A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
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noun
The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
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Usage: Canada, US, specifically
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noun
Metonymic senses:
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
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noun
Metonymic senses:
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.
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noun
Metonymic senses:
An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
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noun
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Ellipsis of Wall Street.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Topics: business, finance
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noun
Living in the streets.
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Usage: attributive
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noun
Streetwise slang.
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Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
People in general, as a source of information.
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Usage: in-plural, slang
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noun
A great distance.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: card-games, poker
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noun
A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To build or equip with streets.
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verb
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
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verb
To heavily defeat.
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Usage: broadly
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
To go on sale.
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verb
To proselytize in public.
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Usage: Japanese, Mormonism
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noun
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: thoroughfare
Narrower terms: alley, alleyway, back street, avenue, boulevard, cross street, local road, local street, main street, high street, mews, rue, side street, Fleet Street, Harley Street, Lombard Street, Whitehall, Strand, Downing Street, Pall Mall, Quai d'Orsay, Champs Elysees, Bowery, Broadway, Great White Way, Park Avenue, Park Ave., Wall Street, Wall St.
noun
the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: thoroughfare
Narrower terms: one-way street, two-way street
noun
people living or working on the same street
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Broader terms: neighborhood, neighbourhood
noun
a situation offering opportunities
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Broader terms: opportunity, chance
noun
the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
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Broader terms: environment
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh3- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *str̥h3tós Proto-Italic *strātos Latin strātus Latin via strātaellip. Late Latin strātabor. Proto-West Germanic *strātu Anglian Old English strēt Middle English strete English street 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”). Doublet of estrade and stratum. The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep. Cognates Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese and Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese and Spanish estrada (“road”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew.
Across languages
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