Definition of STREET

street

Plural: streets

Noun

  • a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
    • "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
    • "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
    • "she tried to keep her children off the street"
  • a situation offering opportunities
    • "he worked both sides of the street"
    • "cooperation is a two-way street"
  • people living or working on the same street
    • "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"
  • A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
  • A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
  • The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
  • Metonymic senses:
  • The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
  • 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.
  • Metonymic senses:
  • An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
  • Metonymic senses:
  • Ellipsis of Wall Street.
  • Living in the streets.
  • Streetwise slang.
  • People in general, as a source of information.
  • A great distance.
  • Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
  • A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
  • pl. -S a public thoroughfare

Adj

  • Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

Verb

  • To build or equip with streets.
  • To eject; to throw onto the streets.
  • To heavily defeat.
  • To go on sale.
  • To proselytize in public.

Examples

  • "a street cat"
  • "a street urchin"
  • "He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school."
  • "I got some pot cheap on the street."
  • "I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue."
  • "Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street."
  • "Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million."
  • "Streets say something's happening tomorrow."
  • "The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million."
  • "Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right."

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon form 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”).
Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Low German Straat (“street”), German Straße (“street”), Swedish stråt (“way, path”), Icelandic stræti (“street”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornýnai). More at strew.
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.

Synonyms

street

Scrabble Score: 6

street: valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
street: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
street: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

street is a valid Words With Friends word