avenue

Plural

avenues

1. 1.A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.

   • Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south.
   • The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west; numbered streets run north–south.

2. 2.A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.

3. 3.The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

4. 4.A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

   • There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.
   • As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.
   • In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.

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