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| 1. | [ noun ] (transportation,geography) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | |
| Examples: | "they walked the streets of the small town" "he lives on Nassau Street" |
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| Related terms: | thoroughfare Broadway main_street Wall_Street alley avenue Park_Avenue side_street local_road lombard_street Fleet_Street rue mews Quai_d'Orsay Strand Bowery Champs_Elysees harley_street cross_street whitehall downing_street pall_mall pavement | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (transportation) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | |
| Examples: | "Be careful crossing the street" |
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| Related terms: | thoroughfare two-way_street one-way_street | |
| 3. | [ noun ] the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | |
| Examples: | "she tried to keep her children off the street" |
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| Related terms: | environment concrete_jungle | |
| 4. | [ noun ] (informal) a situation offering opportunities | |
| Examples: | "he worked both sides of the street" "cooperation is a two-way street" |
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| Related terms: | opportunity colloquialism | |
| 5. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1513 | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (sociology) people living or working on the same street | |
| Examples: | "the whole street protested the absence of street lights" |
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| Related terms: | neighborhood | |
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