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street

/stɹit/noun1 syllable

Street means: a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.

What does street mean?5

noun

1

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings“they walked the streets of the small town”

2

the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel“be careful crossing the street”

3

the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction“she tried to keep her children off the street”

4

a situation offering opportunities“he worked both sides of the street”

5

people living or working on the same street“the whole street protested the absence of street lights”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with street?36

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All 36 rhymes for street, grouped by syllable

Street in a sentence

  • Go along this street, and you'll find the movie theater.unknown
  • If you follow this street, you will get to the station.CK
  • I spoke to a child on the street, but he ended up running away.human600
  • Because of the street fighting, the city is in utter confusion.unknown
  • We walked along the busy street, singing old songs.CM
  • After the accident, the car lay in the street upside down.CM
  • Not knowing where she was, she stopped and asked the way on the street.unknown
  • Crossing the street, he was knocked down by a car.Dejo

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of street

as a noun

plural
streets