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street

noun · verb

Simple meaning

A road as above, but including the sidewalks and buildings.

Pronunciation

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street
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IPA pronunciation (US)

ˈstɹit

This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.

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Word Review

Definition

Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.

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. specificallyUSCanada

    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.

verb

  1. To go on sale.

  2. To build or equip with streets.

  3. To eject; to throw onto the streets.

Word at a Glance

Difficulty
A1 · Beginner (estimated)
Frequency
Very Common
Typical Use
General English

Word Aura™

How this word commonly comes across.

Aura for this meaning

This meaning: A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

Used this way, street is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.

Emotional tone
Neutral
Formality
Neutral
Intensity
Not strongly marked
How common
Moderately common
Connotation
Matter-of-fact
Usage feel
Neutral and straightforward

Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.

More ways to use street

  • “She tried to keep her children off the street.”noun
  • “The whole street protested the absence of street lights.”noun
  • “They walked the streets of the small town.”noun

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Common Patterns and Combinations

How this word naturally appears with others.

Spend

wall street

Place

side street

Other combinations

main streethigh streetbroad streetstreet cornerstreet railwaybond street

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Word Family

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Compound terms

Established multiword terms.

  • street cleanernounCompound term

    A worker employed to clean streets (especially one employed by a municipal sanitation department).

  • street clothesnounCompound term

    Ordinary clothing suitable for public appearances (as opposed to costumes or sports apparel or work clothes etc.).

  • street cornernounCompound term

    The intersection of two streets.

  • street crednounCompound term

    Credibility among young fashionable urban individuals.

  • street credibilitynounCompound term

    Credibility among young fashionable urban individuals.

  • street drugnounCompound term

    A drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects).

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