English Explanatory Dictionary

street

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
  2. A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
  3. The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
  4. Metonymic senses:
  5. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
  6. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
  7. An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
  8. Ellipsis of Wall Street.
  9. Living in the streets.
  10. Streetwise slang.
  11. People in general, as a source of information.
  12. A great distance.
adj
  1. Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
verb
  1. To build or equip with streets.
  2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
  3. To heavily defeat.
  4. To go on sale.
  5. To proselytize in public.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place in England:
  3. A hamlet in Orton parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY6208).
  4. A small village in Branscombe parish, East Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SY1888).
  5. A hamlet in Nether Wyresdale parish, Wyre district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD5252).
  6. A hamlet in Glaisdale parish, North Yorkshire (OS grid ref NZ7304).
  7. A large village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST4836).
  8. A hamlet in Holcombe parish, Somerset, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6750).
  9. A hamlet in Winsham parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST3507).
  10. A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.
  11. An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.

Pronunciation

strēt /stɹiːt/ En-uk-a street.ogg [ʃt͡ʃɹiːt] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Xavier hillier-street.wav /stɹit/ En-us-street.ogg [skɹitˀ] [ʃkɹitˀ] [ʃtɹ̠̊iʔ]

Word forms

street streets streete streat streate more street most street streeting streeted

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 estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew.

Synonyms

street Streete

Related words

pavement sidewalk footpath footway thoroughfare abode

Derived words

Verbs restreet take to the streets Adjectives backstreet interstreet multistreet streetable streetless streetlike streetproof streetside streetsmart streetstyle streetworthy Adverbs downstreet midstreet streetwards upstreet Adwick le Street Baker Street Barton-le-Street Bay Street Bow Street Broad Street Brook Street Canal Street Chester-le-Street Collier Street Cross Street Dalal Street Downing Street Farthing Street Fenchurch Street Fleet Street Fox Street Green Street Green Street Green Hammond Street Hamstreet Ham Street Harley Street High Street Kent Street K Street Liverpool Street Lombard Street Long Street Low Street Main Street Mill Street Mountain Street New Street Oakle Street Park Street Sharnal Street Silver Street Sole Street South Street

Translations

Spanish: calle Spanish: rúa Spanish: acera Spanish: facera
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