English dictionary
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English noun: street | |||
| 1. | street (artifact) a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings | ||
| Samples | They walked the streets of the small town. He lives on Nassau Street. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | thoroughfare | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | alley, alleyway, avenue, back street, boulevard, cross street, high street, local road, local street, main street, mews, rue, side street | ||
| Instance hyponym | Bowery, Broadway, Champs Elysees, Downing Street, Fleet Street, Great White Way, Harley Street, Lombard Street, Pall Mall, Park Ave., Park Avenue, Quai d'Orsay, Strand, Wall St., Wall Street, Whitehall | ||
| Substance holonym | pavement, paving | ||
| 2. | street (artifact) the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel | ||
| Samples | Be careful crossing the street. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | thoroughfare | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | one-way street, two-way street | ||
| 3. | street (state) the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction | ||
| Samples | She tried to keep her children off the street. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | environment | ||
| Part meronym | concrete jungle | ||
| 4. | street (state) a situation offering opportunities | ||
| Samples | He worked both sides of the street. Cooperation is a two-way street. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | chance, opportunity | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| 5. | street (group) people living or working on the same street | ||
| Samples | The whole street protested the absence of street lights. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | neighborhood, neighbourhood | ||
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