street

Main Entry:
street [street]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: path upon which travel occurs
Synonyms: artery, avenue, back alley, boulevard, byway, court, dead end, drag*, drive, highway, lane, parkway, passage, pavement, place, road, roadway, route, row, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turf*, way
Notes: street comes from Latin strata 'something laid'; road is a general term, whereas street is narrower in sense and chiefly urban in application - a street typically has buildings on either side and is paved
Main Entry: colloquial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: particular, familiar to an area, informal
Synonyms: chatty, common, conversational, demotic, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, jive, popular, street*, vernacular
Antonyms: correct, formal, standard, stilted
Main Entry: concourse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: passageway
Synonyms: avenue, boulevard, entrance, foyer, hall, highway, lobby, lounge, meeting place, path, rallying point, road, street
Main Entry: court
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: yard, garden of building
Synonyms: cloister, close, compass, courtyard, curtilage, enclosure, forum, patio, piazza, plaza, quad, quadrangle, square, street
Main Entry: highway
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: heavily traveled, capacious road
Synonyms: artery, avenue, boulevard, drag*, four-lane, freeway, interstate, parking lot, parkway, path, pike, roadway, skyway, street, super slab, superhighway, thoroughfare, toll road, track, turnpike
Notes: a highway is a main road; an expressway is a multilane highway; freeway, parkway, turnpike are types of expressways
Main Entry: lane
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: road
Synonyms: alley, artery, avenue, back street, boulevard, byway, drive, expressway, highway, parkway, passage, pathway, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, throughway, thruway, turnpike
Notes: lain is the past participle of lie; a lane is a narrow way or road or a well-defined track
Main Entry: line
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: row, succession; course
Synonyms: arrangement, array, axis, band, block, border, catalogue, channel, column, concatenation, crack, direction, division, drain, echelon, file, fissure, formation, furrow, groove, group, lane, length, list, magazine, mark, order, path, progression, queue, rank, ridge, road, route, row, scar, seam, sequence, series, street, string, thread, tier, track, train, trajectory, trench, way
Main Entry: neighborhood
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: community, surroundings
Synonyms: adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo
Main Entry: path
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: course, way
Synonyms: aisle, artery, avenue, beat, beaten path, boulevard, byway, crosscut, direction, drag, footpath, groove, highway, lane, line, pass, passage, pathway, procedure, rail, road, roadway, route, rut, shortcut, street, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, walk, walkway
Antonyms: blockage
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