street
noun
[ striːt ]
• a public road in a city, town, or village, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides.
• "the narrow, winding streets of Edinburgh"
Similar:
road,
thoroughfare,
way,
avenue,
drive,
row,
crescent,
terrace,
close,
parade,
side street,
side road,
lane,
alley,
boulevard,
highway,
strip,
blacktop,
• relating to the outlook, values, or lifestyle of those young people who are perceived as composing a fashionable urban subculture.
• "London street style"
Origin:
Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.
on the streets
• homeless.
• "the number of people who are out on the streets is lower than twelve months ago"
• working as a prostitute.
• "the effect of heavy policing on the visibility of women working on the streets"
