avenue

Meaning

1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
2. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

Synonyms

street

boulevard

road

🛣️

way

parkway

path

🛣️

alley

approach

lane

means

method

passage

agency

remedy

resource

recourse

expedient

main street

expedience

esplanade

drive

highway

causeway

livelihood

garden walk

outlet

parkway

course

distance

door

🚪

drug

💊

hall

high street

medicament

mode

opening

passageway

pharmaceutical

roadway

route

technique

thoroughfare

track

vista

walk

🚶

walkway

tree-lined street

medicine

💊

Translations

avenida

avenue

Allee

viale

avenida

boulevard

allée

🛣️

avinguda

laan

λεωφόρος

Avenue

Straße

Boulevard

weg

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈæv.əˌnjuː/

Etymology

Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)).

Sentences

A ritzy limousine was driving along the fifth avenue .