Straße

Meaning

1. (feminine) street; road (a way wide enough to be passable for vehicles, generally paved, in or outside a settlement)
2. (feminine) carriageway (the part of a road or street used by vehicles, excluding the pavement, etc.)
3. (feminine,figuratively) public, any area accessible to anyone
4. (feminine,figuratively) general public, using the locale to describe people not part of a specific group
5. (feminine) the streets, areas or groups of people of no income or criminal affiliation, or the leading of a life associated with these
6. (feminine) strait (channel of water)
7. (feminine) straight

Concepts

street

road

way

strait

path

straight

avenue

highway

channel

route

town

roadway

lane

block

public

alley

trail

thoroughfare

drive

in the street

busy place

neighborhood

neighbourhood

method

around town

on the street

world

road path

straits

road way

back street

bowling alley

side street

boulevard

parkway

expressway

freeway

motorway

pike

state highway

super highway

superhighway

throughway

thruway

turnpike

corridor

gallery

hall

passage

motor road

run

busway

carriageway

sidewalk

public road

footpath

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʃtʁaːsə/

Etymology

From Middle High German strāze, from Old High German strāza, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin (via) strata.
The sense “strait” is a calque of Middle Low German strâte, itself a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (“narrow”), from unrelated Latin strictus.