street

Forms

1.A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
- Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
2.A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
- I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
3.The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- I found a dollar in the street.
- Avoid crossing this street when it is raining.
- This is the street that I was telling you about.
4.Metonymic senses:
- I got some pot cheap on the street.
- The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
- Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street.

1.To heavily defeat.
- Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
2.To build or equip with streets.
- There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.
3.To eject; to throw onto the streets.

1.Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.(slang)
- Eric had to admit that she looked street, upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ster-

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós

Proto-Italic *strātos

Latin strātus

Latin via strātaellip.

Late Latin strātabor.

Proto-West Germanic *strātu

Anglian Old English strēt

Middle English strete