street

Sentences

We couldn't find
🔍

the high street .

He
👨

mainly performed at nightclubs and on the street .

Meaning

narrow passage

narrow street

public road

high way

principal road

village street

οδός

δρόμος

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹiːt/

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with Scots

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In summary

From Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep. Cognates Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese, Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew.

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street

Sentences

An older man 👨 is walking 🚶 along the street in front of a woman 👩 .

One can imagine these two , covered with sand , running up the little street in the bright sunlight .

We couldn't find 🔍 the high street .

He 👨 mainly performed at nightclubs and on the street .

Two men in turbans are walking 🚶 along a 🅰️ city 🏙️ street .

The street is now known as Robert and Trudie Perkins Way .

Meaning

Synonyms

Translations

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹiːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Old English

strēt

Cognate with Scots

stret

Cognate with Saterland Frisian

Sträite

Cognate with Western Frisian

strjitte

Cognate with Dutch

straat

Cognate with German

Straße

Cognate with Swedish

stråt

Cognate with Icelandic

stræti

Cognate with Old English

strēowian

Cognate with Latin

sternō

Cognate with Greek

στορνύναι

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An older man
👨

is walking
🚶

along the street in front of a woman
👩

.

We couldn't find
🔍

the high street .

He
👨

mainly performed at nightclubs and on the street .

Two men in turbans are walking
🚶

along a
🅰️

city
🏙️

street .