street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
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: 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: Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
text: The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
glosses: A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
examples: text: I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
glosses: A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
glosses: The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
glosses: Metonymic senses:
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
examples: text: Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: I got some pot cheap on the street.
text: The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
glosses: Metonymic senses:
An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
examples: text: Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street.
text: Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Metonymic senses:
Ellipsis of Wall Street.
examples: text: a street cat
text: a street urchin
glosses: Living in the streets.
examples: text: Toaster is street for guns.
ref: 2008, Andrew Fleming, Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features:
glosses: Streetwise slang.
examples: text: Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
glosses: People in general, as a source of information.
examples: text: He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
text: England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: A great distance.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
Synonyms: word: street
Hypernyms: word: road
word: way
Hyponyms: word: back street
word: backstreet
word: bystreet
word: high street
word: main street
word: one-way street
word: outstreet
word: playstreet
word: side street
word: stravenue
word: streetlet
word: streetling
word: streetway
word: stroad
word: two-way street
word: Watling Street
word: alley
word: avenue
word: boulevard
word: cul-de-sac
word: blind alley
Derived terms: sense: Common nouns
word: 121 George Street
sense: Common nouns
word: Arab street
sense: Common nouns
word: arterial street
sense: Common nouns
word: Baker Street Irregular
sense: Common nouns
word: bye-street
sense: Common nouns
word: civvy street
sense: Common nouns
word: cloud street
sense: Common nouns
word: complete street
sense: Common nouns
word: easy street
sense: Common nouns
word: food street
sense: Common nouns
word: the streets
sense: Common nouns
word: ghost street
sense: Common nouns
word: Karman street
sense: Common nouns
word: Kármán street
sense: Common nouns
word: Kármán vortex street
sense: Common nouns
word: Karman vortex street
sense: Common nouns
word: keep off the street
sense: Common nouns
word: keep off the streets
sense: Common nouns
word: key of the street
sense: Common nouns
word: Liverpool Street
sense: Common nouns
word: living street
sense: Common nouns
word: man in the street
sense: Common nouns
word: man on the street
sense: Common nouns
word: mean streets
sense: Common nouns
word: midstreet
sense: Common nouns
word: off-street
sense: Common nouns
word: on the street
sense: Common nouns
word: paper street
sense: Common nouns
word: person in the street
sense: Common nouns
word: play street
sense: Common nouns
word: Queer Street
sense: Common nouns
word: slow street
sense: Common nouns
word: snack street
sense: Common nouns
word: stopstreet
sense: Common nouns
word: stop street
sense: Common nouns
word: streatery
sense: Common nouns
word: street address
sense: Common nouns
word: streetage
sense: Common nouns
word: street ape
sense: Common nouns
word: street appeal
sense: Common nouns
word: street apple
sense: Common nouns
word: street-arab
sense: Common nouns
word: street Arab
sense: Common nouns
word: street art
sense: Common nouns
word: street artist
sense: Common nouns
word: streetball
sense: Common nouns
word: street BASIC
sense: Common nouns
word: street bike
sense: Common nouns
word: street bum
sense: Common nouns
word: streetcar
sense: Common nouns
word: street child
sense: Common nouns
word: street cleaner
sense: Common nouns
word: streetcleaner
sense: Common nouns
word: street clothes
sense: Common nouns
word: streetcorner
sense: Common nouns
word: street corner
sense: Common nouns
word: street cred
sense: Common nouns
word: street credibility
sense: Common nouns
word: street crime
sense: Common nouns
word: street dance
sense: Common nouns
word: street dancer
sense: Common nouns
word: street date
sense: Common nouns
word: street drug
sense: Common nouns
word: streeted
sense: Common nouns
word: street elbow
sense: Common nouns
word: streetfight
sense: Common nouns
word: street fight
sense: Common nouns
word: street fighter
sense: Common nouns
word: streetfighter
sense: Common nouns
word: streetfighting
sense: Common nouns
word: street fighting
sense: Common nouns
word: streetfolk
sense: Common nouns
word: street food
sense: Common nouns
word: streetfront
sense: Common nouns
word: streetful
sense: Common nouns
word: street furniture
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word: street gang
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word: street girl
sense: Common nouns
word: streetgoer
sense: Common nouns
word: street harassment
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word: street hockey
sense: Common nouns
word: streetie
sense: Common nouns
word: street kid
sense: Common nouns
word: streetlamp
sense: Common nouns
word: street-lamp
sense: Common nouns
word: street lamp
sense: Common nouns
word: street-legal
sense: Common nouns
word: street level
sense: Common nouns
word: street library
sense: Common nouns
word: streetlife
sense: Common nouns
word: street-light
sense: Common nouns
word: streetlight
sense: Common nouns
word: street light
sense: Common nouns
word: streetlighting
sense: Common nouns
word: street luge
sense: Common nouns
word: street map
sense: Common nouns
word: street market
sense: Common nouns
word: street mirror
sense: Common nouns
word: street money
sense: Common nouns
word: street musician
sense: Common nouns
word: street nail
sense: Common nouns
word: street name
sense: Common nouns
word: streetness
sense: Common nouns
word: street number
sense: Common nouns
word: streetology
sense: Common nouns
word: street organ
sense: Common nouns
word: street parliament
sense: Common nouns
word: street parliamentarian
sense: Common nouns
word: street party
sense: Common nouns
word: street performance
sense: Common nouns
word: street performer
sense: Common nouns
word: street pharmacist
sense: Common nouns
word: street piano
sense: Common nouns
word: street pigeon
sense: Common nouns
word: street queen
sense: Common nouns
word: street race
sense: Common nouns
word: street racing
sense: Common nouns
word: street railway
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word: streetscape
sense: Common nouns
word: streetscaping
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word: streetseller
sense: Common nouns
word: street shitter
sense: Common nouns
word: street shoes
sense: Common nouns
word: street sign
sense: Common nouns
word: street-smart
sense: Common nouns
word: street smart
sense: Common nouns
word: street smarts
sense: Common nouns
word: street stock
sense: Common nouns
word: street sweeper
sense: Common nouns
word: street-sweeper
sense: Common nouns
word: street taco
sense: Common nouns
word: street talk
sense: Common nouns
word: street team
sense: Common nouns
word: street theater
sense: Common nouns
word: street theatre
sense: Common nouns
word: street urchin
sense: Common nouns
word: street value
sense: Common nouns
word: streetwalker
sense: Common nouns
word: streetwalking
sense: Common nouns
word: streetwall
sense: Common nouns
word: streetward
sense: Common nouns
word: streetwear
sense: Common nouns
word: street wisdom
sense: Common nouns
word: streetwise
sense: Common nouns
word: street-wise
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word: streetworker
sense: Common nouns
word: street worker
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word: street workout
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word: streety
sense: Common nouns
word: superstreet
sense: Common nouns
word: surface street
sense: Common nouns
word: trap street
sense: Common nouns
word: trust someone across the street
sense: Common nouns
word: up someone's street
sense: Common nouns
word: von Kármán vortex street
sense: Common nouns
word: von Karman vortex street
sense: Common nouns
word: walke-street
sense: Common nouns
word: walking street
sense: Common nouns
word: woman of the street
sense: Common nouns
word: woman on the street
sense: Common nouns
word: word on the street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Adwick le Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Baker Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Barton-le-Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Bay Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Bow Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Broad Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Brook Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Canal Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Chester-le-Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Collier Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Cross Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Downing Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Farthing Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Fenchurch Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Fleet Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Fox Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Green Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Green Street Green
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Ham Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Hamstreet
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Harley Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: High Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Kent Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: K Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Liverpool Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Lombard Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Long Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Low Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Main Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Mill Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Mountain Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: New Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Oakle Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Park Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Sharnal Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Silver Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Sole Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: South Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Stiff Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Street Lane
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: the Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Threadneedle Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Turkey Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: U Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Wall Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Weavering Street
sense: Proper and other capitalized nouns formed using street (noun), literally and figuratively
word: Wharram le Street
word: Verbs
word: take to the streets
word: Adjectives
word: backstreet
word: interstreet
word: multistreet
word: streetless
word: streetlike
word: streetproof
word: streetside
word: streetsmart
word: streetstyle
word: streetworthy
word: Adverbs
word: downstreet
word: midstreet
word: streetwards
word: upstreet
Related terms: word: pavement
word: sidewalk
word: footpath
word: footway
word: thoroughfare
word: abode