boulevard
Meanings
Plural: boulevards
Noun
- a wide street or thoroughfare
- A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.
- The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.
- A strip of land between a street and sidewalk.
- The grassy area in the middle of some streets; A refuge island.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
boulevard is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordboulevard is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boulevard is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 19
boulevard is a valid Words With Friends word