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Main Entry:	street [street] Show IPA/strit/ Show Spelled
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

* = informal/non-formal usage

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

* = informal/non-formal usage

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

Example Sentences

Be your own street photographer by showing us your style or someone else's in your current climate.

They live under woefully desperate conditions, but street children may be better off than once thought.

After all, it is a barrier between house and street.

Be your own street photographer by showing us your style or someone else's in your current climate.

They live under woefully desperate conditions, but street children may be better off than once thought.

After all, it is a barrier between house and street.

Next-gen optical camouflage is busting out of defense labs and into the street.

Jansdotter salvaged this piece of junior-high nostalgia off the street.

Materials such as gravel permit water to percolate into the soil instead of running off into the street.

One of the highlights of those years was hearing a vendor–pulling a roasting/grilling cart from street to street– shouting.

In the past few years, as street art has exploded from variations on fat.

Sharp street corners, narrow streets, and frequent intersections naturally induce drivers to go more slowly and be more alert.

He set up a makeshift studio in an empty storefront across the street from where he lived.

Pychosis, blindness, wicked constipation-the side effects of street heroin ingredients-make the drug that much more appealing.

The relationship between high fashion and street wear goes back a long way.

With cash machines and bank branches at every street corner there is less call for an alternative payment system.

Back down the stairs, cross the street that parallels the train tracks and head left.

When real brains operate in the real world, it's a two-way street.

The street front remains unchanged with a new lower-level room opening to the side yard and creek beyond.

Street price per gram, implies the grade of cocaine you'd get on the street.

On a street named after an ancient philosopher you might find a bordello beside a chic restaurant.

Monorails could enter and leave buildings well above street level and greatly improve access both for everyday use and emergency.

Street entrance with bold orange door and horsetail-filled concrete planters.

The town hall sees street prayers as a temporary problem of capacity.

On-site parking is available by arrangement, with street parking and commercial garages nearby.

At the water street fair, he's busy recruiting people to testify at the hearing to bolster the case against coal ash.

Recently renovated and across the street from the sands, this hotel oozes old-school details.

So the police tried moving the tolerance zone to a street occupied by businesses which shut down at night.

Note its two tiers of columns wrapped around the street corner.

If you can't handle looking both ways before crossing the street the world won't miss you.

Visually exposed to the street on all sides, houses on corner lots are notoriously hard to landscape.

Moustakas also developed a system that converts pictures of traditional paper maps into a three-dimensional street map.

The arbor also improves how the house looks from the street.

For example they over filled one tank and gasoline was running down the street and into the water drainage system.

The wall blocks the sight and sound of street traffic nearby.

Flagstone paths curve from the street and the driveway to the front door.

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:	exchange
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	place where stocks are bought, sold
Synonyms:	Wall Street, curb, market, net, network, over the counter, stock exchange, store, the Big Board, the 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

* = informal/non-formal usage

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

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

* = informal/non-formal usage
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