English Explanatory Dictionary

Acacia Avenue

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A placeholder name for a residential street.
  2. An archetypal middle-class suburban residential street.

Word forms

Acacia Avenue

Etymology

acacia (“A flowering shrub often grown ornamentally”) + avenue (“a broad tree-lined street”). Streets named after trees are common on planned housing estates. Many streets with this name exist in various towns and cities.

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