street

Etymology
From Anglian (cognate West Saxon form ) from, an early borrowing from   , from , past participle of , from.

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The vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to  in West Saxon and  in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to  and  in Middle English,  and   in Early Modern English, and finally  in Modern English by the. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in, ,.

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) The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
 * 5) 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.
 * 6) An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
 * 7)  Living in the streets.
 * 8)  Streetwise slang.
 * 9)  People in general, as a source of information.
 * 10)  A great distance.
 * 11)  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
 * 12)  A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
 * 1)  Living in the streets.
 * 2)  Streetwise slang.
 * 3)  People in general, as a source of information.
 * 4)  A great distance.
 * 5)  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
 * 6)  A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
 * 1)  Streetwise slang.
 * 2)  People in general, as a source of information.
 * 3)  A great distance.
 * 4)  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
 * 5)  A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
 * 1)  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
 * 2)  A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
 * 1)  Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
 * 2)  A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

Usage notes

 * In the generic sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably with, , and other similar terms.


 * In its narrow usage, street specifically means a paved route within a settlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while a road is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notably Manhattan, New York City), streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets.


 * In the sense of "a road", the prepositions and  have distinct meanings when used with, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the street without looking", "I met her when walking on the street").


 * By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:street

Translations

 * Abkhaz: амҩа, амҩаду
 * Adyghe: урам
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: መንገድ
 * Arabic:, زَنَقَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: شارع
 * Hijazi Arabic: شارِع
 * Moroccan Arabic: زنقة
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ulitsã, sucaki
 * Assamese: বাট, আলি, আলিবাট
 * Asturian: ,
 * Avar: къватӏ
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: урам
 * Basque: kalean,
 * Baure: kaye
 * Bavarian: Stråßn, Strossn
 * Belarusian:
 * Belizean Creole: schreet
 * Bengali:
 * Bouyei: gaail
 * Breton:, , ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Caló: ulicha
 * Carpathian Rusyn: у́ліця, у́лиця
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: dalan
 * Chamorro: chalan
 * Chechen: урам
 * Cherokee: ᎦᎳᏅᏛᎢ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 街, 路
 * Dungan: гэдо, гэ, хонзы
 * Eastern Min: 街
 * Gan: 街
 * Hokkien: 街路
 * Jin: 街
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Wu: 街, 街路
 * Xiang: 街
 * Chukchi: яравытгыр
 * Chuvash: урам
 * Coptic: ϣⲑⲉϩ, ϧⲓⲣ, ⲡⲗⲁⲧⲓⲁ
 * Cornish: stret
 * Corsican: strada
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: plaza
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya: ульця
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: strade
 * Galician: rúa
 * Georgian:, ფოლორცი
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐍅𐍉, 𐍀𐌻𐌰𐍀𐌾𐌰, 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌹
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πλατεῖα, ῥύμη
 * Greenlandic: aqqusineq
 * Guaraní: ape (t-),
 * Gujarati:
 * Hausa: titi
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: dalan
 * Hiligaynon: dalan
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Stros
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Ilocano: dalan
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: uulitsa, tee, katu
 * Ingush: улица
 * Interlingua: strata
 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: sráit
 * Istriot: cal
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Javanese:
 * Kabardian:
 * Kannada:, ,
 * Kapampangan: dalan
 * Kashubian: ùlëca
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas: орам
 * Khmer:, វិថី
 * Kituba: balabala
 * Komi-Permyak: улич
 * Korean:, , , , -가(街) ,
 * Kuna: igar
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, کۆڵان,
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin:, , platea
 * Latvian:
 * Lezgi: куьче
 * Lingala: balabála
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German:, Stroot
 * Lü:
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: улица
 * Maguindanao: lalan
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese:
 * Manchu: ᡤᡳᠶᠠᡳ
 * Manx: straid
 * Maori:
 * Maranao: lalan
 * Marathi: मार्ग, रस्ता
 * Middle English: strete
 * Mòcheno: stros
 * Moksha: ульця
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠭᠤᠳᠤᠮᠵᠢ
 * Nanai: гиан
 * Nogai: орам
 * Norman: rue
 * North Frisian: stroote;  struat
 * Northern Sami: gáhta, gáhtta
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: gate
 * Occitan:
 * Odia:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Cyrillic: оулица
 * Old East Slavic: улица
 * Old English: strǣt
 * Old Norse: gata
 * Ossetian: уынг
 * Paiwan: djalan
 * Papiamentu: kaya
 * Pashto: نونګړی,
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Gauss
 * Polabian: sroto
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi:
 * Gurmukhi: ਗਲੀ
 * Shahmukhi: گَلی
 * Rhine Franconian: Schdrooß
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: via, strada
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: bia, via, istrada, istrata, strada
 * Scots: gait
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̏лица
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Shor: орам
 * Silesian: ulica
 * Sinhalese: වීදිය
 * Skolt Sami: uuʹlec
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: droga, wulica
 * Upper Sorbian: hasa, dróha, wulica
 * Southern Altai: ороом, ором
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sranan Tongo: strati
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tabasaran: кюче
 * Tagalog:, kalye
 * Tajik:, гузар,
 * Tamil: ,
 * Taos: kàyiʼína
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Tetum: lurón
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ལམ་ཁག, ལམ་ཁ
 * Tigrinya: ጐደና
 * Tocharian B: naunto
 * Tok Pisin: rot
 * Tupinambá: apé (t-)
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: köçe
 * Tày: cai
 * Udmurt: ульча, урам
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: گَلی, سَڑَک, راسْتَہ
 * Uyghur: كوچا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: strada
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Võro: huulits, uulits
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: strjitte
 * White Hmong: kev
 * Wolof: mbédd
 * Yakut: уулусса
 * Yiddish: גאַס
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: gai

Adjective

 * 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.
 * 1)  To heavily defeat.
 * 2) To go on sale.
 * 3)  To proselytize in public.
 * 1) To go on sale.
 * 2)  To proselytize in public.
 * 1) To go on sale.
 * 2)  To proselytize in public.
 * 1)  To proselytize in public.
 * 1)  To proselytize in public.