Word: backstreets
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: back
streets
Definition: Plural of backstreet. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
Morphemes:
Affix: back
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
Affix: street
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: strātus
Language: la
Decoded: stratus
PoS: Participle
Meaning: paved, covered, having been paved
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.