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(noun) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street" |
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Related Words: Bowery, Broadway, Champs Elysees, Fleet Street, Great White Way, Park Ave., Park Avenue, Quai d'Orsay, Strand, Wall St., Wall Street, avenue, boulevard, high street, main street, mews, thoroughfare |
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(noun) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel; "Be careful crossing the street" |
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Related Words: one-way street, thoroughfare, two-way street |
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(noun) people living or working on the same street; "the whole street protested the absence of street lights" |
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Related Words: neighborhood, neighbourhood |
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(noun) (informal) a situation offering opportunities; "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street" |
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Related Words: chance, opportunity |
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(noun) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction; "she tried to keep her children off the street" |
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Related Words: environment |
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