STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does street mean? 

• STREET (noun)
  The noun STREET has 5 senses:

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

2. the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel

3. the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction

4. a situation offering opportunities

5. people living or working on the same street

  Familiarity information: STREET used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

he lives on Nassau Street

Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):

thoroughfare (a public road from one place to another)

Meronyms (substance of "street"):

pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street"):

avenue; boulevard (a wide street or thoroughfare)

cross street (a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it)

local road; local street (a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it)

high street; main street (street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town)

mews (street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings)

rue ((French) a street or road in France)

side street (a street intersecting a main street and terminating there)

alley; alleyway; back street (a narrow street with walls on both sides)

Instance hyponyms:

Strand (a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels)

Wall St.; Wall Street (a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance)

Park Ave.; Park Avenue (a fashionable residential street in New York City)

Broadway; Great White Way (a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters)

Bowery (a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts)

Champs Elysees (a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes)

Quai d'Orsay (the street in Paris along the south bank of the Seine known for its governmental ministries)

Pall Mall (a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs)

Downing Street (a street of Westminster in London)

Whitehall (a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices)

Lombard Street (a street in central London containing many of the major London banks)

Harley Street (a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located)

Fleet Street (a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

be careful crossing the street

Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):

thoroughfare (a public road from one place to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street"):

one-way street (a street on which vehicular traffic is allowed to move in only one direction)

two-way street (a street on which vehicular traffic can move in either of two directions)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

she tried to keep her children off the street

Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):

environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)

Holonyms ("street" is a part of...):

concrete jungle (an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A situation offering opportunities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

cooperation is a two-way street

Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):

chance; opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 5

Meaning:

People living or working on the same street

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the whole street protested the absence of street lights

Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):

neighborhood; neighbourhood (people living near one another)

 Context examples 

He clumped heavily down the street, driving this little flock before him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember, though I suppose I was asleep, passing through the streets and over the bridge.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"Well, I would rather die yonder than in a street or on a frequented road," I reflected.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I saw you first from across the street when you were with that girl.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Another bang of the street door sent the basket under the sofa, and the girls to the table, eager for breakfast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Many shops stood in the street, and Dorothy saw that everything in them was green.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I traversed the streets without any clear conception of where I was or what I was doing.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were all fairly in the street.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It was close by him, and he was out in the street in a moment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

That's not as loud as traffic on a busy street.

(Noise, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)