straat

Meaning

1. (feminine) street, paved way
2. (feminine) channel, strait

Concepts

street

road

🛣️

strait

path

🛣️

channel

highway

straits

route

way

lane

passage

pike

road way

run

sidewalk

straight

superhighway

thoroughfare

throughway

thruway

turnpike

motor road

public road

state highway

super highway

block

busway

carriageway

corridor

expressway

footpath

freeway

gallery

gate

hall

motorway

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Synonyms

weg

baan

🛣️

nauw

kanaal

autosnelweg

🛣️

zee-engte

snelweg

zeestraat

landweg

autobaan

🛣️

autostrada

autostrade

autoweg

blok

grote weg

hoofdstraat

verkeersweg

zeeëngte

Translations

Straße

calle

strada

🛣️

via

🛣️

via

rue

δρόμος

route

🛣️

rua

estrada

🛣️

οδός

camino

carrer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/straːt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Dutch: strâte

Inherited from Old Dutch: strāta

Cognate with German: Straße

In summary

From Middle Dutch strâte, from Old Dutch strāta, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin strāta, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”).
The sense “strait” is a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit, from Latin strictus. Compare German Straße.

Sentences

Om er te geraken moet je de straat oversteken .

To get there, you have to cross the street.

De ruzie tussen de twee werd vervolgens uitgevochten op straat .

The quarrel between the two was then fought out on the street.

Het gehakt van de beenhouwer in de straat is beter dan het gehakt van de supermarkt .

The minced meat from the butcher in the street is better than the minced meat from the supermarket.