street
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós
Proto-Italic *strātos
Latin strātus
Latin via strātaellip.
Late Latin strātabor.
Proto-West Germanic *strātu
Anglian Old English strēt
Middle English strete
English street
Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare 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”). Doublet of estrade and stratum.
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 and Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese and Spanish estrada (“road”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew.
Inflected forms:
form: more street
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most street
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: streete
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: streat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: streate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: streets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: streeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: streeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: streeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: streete
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: streat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: streate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.
gloss: To build or equip with streets.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.
gloss: To eject; to throw onto the streets.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To heavily defeat.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
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.
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.
gloss: To go on sale.
pos: verb
examples: He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
“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.
gloss: To proselytize in public.
pos: verb
tags: Japanese
Mormonism
examples: A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.
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.
They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.
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