street

Meaning

1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
2. A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
3. The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
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8. Living in the streets.
9. (slang) Streetwise slang.
10. (slang) People in general, as a source of information.
11. A great distance.
12. (slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
13. A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.

road

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narrow passage

narrow street

public road

high way

principal road

village street

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹiːt/

From Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon form 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”). Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”), German Low German Straat (“street”), German Straße (“street”), Swedish stråt (“way, path”), Icelandic stræti (“street”) (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 (stornýnai). More at strew. 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, /eː/ 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.