street
20 ENTRIES FOUND:
- street (noun)
- street (adjective)
- street–smart (adjective)
- street clothes (noun)
- street cred (noun)
- street hockey (noun)
- street smarts (noun)
- civvy street (noun)
- Downing Street (noun)
- easy street (noun)
- Fleet Street (noun)
- high street (noun)
- main street (noun)
- off–street (adjective)
- side street (noun)
- Wall Street (noun)
- hit (verb)
- man (noun)
- pound (verb)
- walk (verb)
plural
streets
plural
streets
Britannica Dictionary definition of STREET
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a road in a city or town that has houses or other buildings on one or both sides
— often used in names
— sometimes used figuratively
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see also easy street, fleet street, high street, main street, wall street
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They live on a busy/residential street.
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a deserted street
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a dead-end/one-way street
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You should look both ways before crossing the street.
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Trash littered the streets.
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The police car cruised up/down the street.
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People don't feel safe walking the streets (of the city) at night. [=don't feel safe walking outside in the city at night]
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our neighbor down/up the street [=our neighbor who lives farther down/up on our street]
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They live across the street (from us). [=they live across from us on the other side of the street]
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Many of our customers walk in off the street without having heard of us before.
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Angry citizens took to the streets [=went outside on the streets] to protest the war.
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He lost his job and eventually was living on the street(s). [=was homeless]
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The store is at 84th Street and 35th Avenue.
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My address is 156 Elm Street.
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Word on the street is that the company is going out of business. [=people are saying that the company is going out of business]
2
informal
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a poor part of a city where there is a lot of crime
— usually plural
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He is from the streets.
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the raw language of the streets
hit the streets
pound the streets
streets ahead of
British, informal
:
much better than (other people or things)
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She is streets ahead of the other students.
the man in the street
up someone's street
British, informal
:
suited to someone's tastes or abilities
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The job is right up his street. [=the job suits him very well]
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Working with animals is right up her street. [=(chiefly US) right up her alley]
2
street
/ˈstriːt/
adjective
2
street
/ˈstriːt/
adjective
Britannica Dictionary definition of STREET
always used before a noun
1
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of or relating to streets
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a street map
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the store's street address
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poor street lighting
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I saw him standing on the street corner [=the area of the sidewalk where two streets meet] waiting for the bus.
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Our apartment is at street level. [=our apartment is on the ground floor of the building]
2
:
occurring, performing, working, or living on a street or sidewalk
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street fighting/musicians/vendors
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a street fair/demonstration
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street people [=homeless people]
3
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of, relating to, or characteristic of a poor part of a city where there is a lot of crime
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street drugs/crime/culture/gangs/slang
