street
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: strēt
ipa: /stɹiːt/
ipa: /stɹit/
ipa: [ˈʃt͡ʃɹitˀ]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [skɹitˀ]
note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: [ʃkɹitˀ]
ipa: [ʃtɹ̠̊iʔ]
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: streets
form: streeting
form: streeted
form: streeted
form: streete
form: streat
form: streate
Etymology: From Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon Old English 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”).
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.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese, Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (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 (stornúnai). More at strew.
Senses: examples: text: There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks.
ref: 1619 July 15 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XII. To Sir James Crofts. Antwerp.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section I, page 17:
text: After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier.
ref: 1999, Ralph C. Hancock, America, the West, and Liberal Education, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 89:
text: There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.
ref: 2011, Robert White, Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc, →ISBN:
glosses: To build or equip with streets.
examples: text: Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.
ref: 1959, The Irish Digest:
glosses: To eject; to throw onto the streets.
examples: text: Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
ref: 2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press, published 2013, →ISBN, part II, 96:
text: But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.
ref: 2008, Steve Menzies, Norman Tasker, chapter 1, in Beaver: The Steve Menzies Story, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul had streeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603.
ref: 2014, Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls, Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian, McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, part VI, chapter 14, 205:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To heavily defeat.
examples: text: He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
ref: 2003, Billboard, page 55:
text: “Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD.
ref: 2005 February 12, Deborah Evans Price, “Winans Ready To ‘Celebrate’ New Album After Illness”, in Billboard, volume 117, number 7, page 18:
glosses: To go on sale.
examples: text: A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.
ref: 2000, Dow Glenn Ostlund, The Lost Tribes of Isuraeru: Belief Tales Among Mormon Missionaries in Japan:
text: Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.
ref: 2007, John Patrick Hoffmann, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 94:
text: They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.
ref: 2010, Eugene Woodbury, chapter 9, in Tokyo South, Peaks Island Press, →ISBN, page 86:
glosses: To proselytize in public.