street
1. a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings (Freq. 86)
- they walked the streets of the small town
- he lives on Nassau Street
• Hypernyms:
thoroughfare
• Hyponyms:
alley, alleyway, back street, avenue, boulevard,
cross street, local road, local street, main street, high street, mews,
rue, side street
• Instance Hyponyms:
Fleet Street, Harley Street, Lombard Street, Whitehall, Strand,
Downing Street, Pall Mall, Quai d'Orsay, Champs Elysees, Bowery, Broadway,
Great White Way, Park Avenue, Park Ave., Wall Street, Wall St.
• Substance Meronyms:
pavement, paving
2. the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks;
the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel (Freq. 3)
- be careful crossing the street
• Hypernyms:
thoroughfare
• Hyponyms:
one-way street, two-way street
3. the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction (Freq. 2)
- she tried to keep her children off the street
• Hypernyms:
environment
• Part Holonyms:
concrete jungle
4. a situation offering opportunities
- he worked both sides of the street
- cooperation is a two-way street
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
• Hypernyms:
opportunity, chance
5. people living or working on the same street
- the whole street protested the absence of street lights
• Hypernyms:
neighborhood, neighbourhood
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