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street

noun
/stɹiːt/UK/ʃt͡ʃɹiːt//stɹit/US

Etymology

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 English street 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. The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep. Cognates Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese and Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew.

  1. derived from *sterh₃-✻
  2. derived from strātus
  3. inherited from *strātu✻ — “street”
  4. inherited from strēt
  5. inherited from strete

Definitions

  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.

  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.

  3. The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.

  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. Metonymic senses

      Metonymic senses:

    2. Living in the streets.

      • a street cat
      • a street urchin

    3. Streetwise slang.

      • Toaster is street for guns.

    4. People in general, as a source of information.

      • Streets say something's happening tomorrow.

    5. A great distance.

      • He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
      • England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.

    6. Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

    7. A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

    8. Having street cred

      Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

      • 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.

    9. 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.

    10. To eject

      To eject; to throw onto the streets.

    11. 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.
      • But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.

    12. To go on sale.

      • He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
      • “Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD.

    13. To proselytize in public.

      • A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.
      • They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.

    14. A surname.

    15. A place in England

      A place in England:

    16. A village in County Westmeath, Ireland.

    17. An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States.

The neighborhood

Derived

Verbs, restreet, take to the streets, Adjectives, backstreet, interstreet, multistreet, streetable, streetless, streetlike, streetproof, streetside, streetsmart, streetstyle, streetworthy, Adverbs, downstreet, midstreet, streetwards, upstreet, Street on the Fosse, Streetsboro

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at street. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at street. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at street

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA