avenue

Meanings

Plural: avenues

Noun

• a line of approach
  • "they explored every avenue they could think of"
  • "it promises to open new avenues to understanding"
• a wide street or thoroughfare
• A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
• A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
• The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
• A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

Synonyms

av, av., ave, ave., boulevard, drive