Meaning

12 senses
  1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

    Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.

    The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.

    Straße

    у́лицаúlica

    ву́лицяvúlycja

  2. A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

    I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

    I've been shopping in Oxford Street.

    a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

  3. (Canada, US, specifically)The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.

  4. Metonymic senses:

    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.

    I got some pot cheap on the street.

    The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.

  7. (attributive)Living in the streets.

    a street cat

    a street urchin

    people living or working on the same street

  8. (slang, uncountable)Streetwise slang.

  9. (in the plural, slang)People in general, as a source of information.

    Streets say something's happening tomorrow.

  10. (figuratively)A great distance.

    He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

  11. (slang)Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

  12. (uncountable)A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

Examples

3331 sentences
  1. A cat ran across the street.

    Дорогу перебіг кіт.

    ruДорогу перебежал кот.

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  2. The store is across the street.

    Магазин - на іншому боці вулиці.

    deDer Laden ist auf der anderen Straßenseite.

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  3. Where does this street lead to?

    Куди веде ця вулиця?

    ruКуда ведёт эта улица?

    deWohin führt diese Straße?

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  4. My house faces a busy street.

    Мій будинок стоїть на жвавій вулиці.

    ruМой дом выходит на оживлённую улицу.

    deMein Haus liegt an einer viel befahrenen Straße.

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  5. I saw him cross the street.

    Я бачив, як він переходив дорогу.

    ruЯ видел, как он переходил улицу.

    deIch habe ihn die Straße überqueren sehen.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
paved part of road in a village or a town:
Русский
By meaning 1
paved part of road in a village or a town:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
paved part of road in a village or a town:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare We

Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Doublet of estrade and stratum.

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Forms

plural: streets
Singularstreet

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

149 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • on park street
  • park street
  • across the street
  • down the street
  • on the street
  • cross the street
  • crossing the street
  • the street from
  • in the street
  • of the street
  • on this street
  • along the street

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
street — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto