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street / strēt/ • n. a public road in a city or town, typically with houses and buildings on one or both sides: the narrow, winding streets of Greenwich Village| [in place names] 45 Lake Street. ∎ (the street) used to refer to the financial markets and activities on Wall Street. ∎ (the street/streets) the roads or public areas of a city or town: every week, fans stop me in the street. ∎ [as adj.] of or relating to the outlook, values, or lifestyle of those young people who are perceived as composing a fashionable urban subculture: New York City street culture. ∎ [as adj.] denoting someone who is homeless: he ministered to street people in storefront missions. ∎ [as adj.] performing or being performed on the street: street theater. PHRASES: on the streets 1. homeless. 2. working as a prostitute. DERIVATIVES: street·ed adj. [in comb.] a many-streeted tangle of low, brick buildings. street·ward / -wərd/ adj. & adv. |
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"street." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "street." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-street.html "street." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-street.html |
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street paved road, highway; road in a town or village. OE. strǣt = OS. strāta (Du. straat), OHG. strāʒ(ʒ)a (G. strasse); WGmc. -late L. strāta, sb. use of fem. pp. of sternere throw or lay down.
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T. F. HOAD. "street." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "street." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-street.html T. F. HOAD. "street." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-street.html |
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street streets paved with gold proverbial view of a city in which opportunities for advancement are easy; as in George Colman the Younger's The Heir at Law (1797).
See also the word on the street. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "street." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "street." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-street.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "street." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-street.html |
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Street, ‘(place on or near) a Roman road or other paved highway’, OE strǣt; for example Street (Somerset, near Glastonbury): Stret 725.
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A. D. MILLS. "Street." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Street." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Street.html A. D. MILLS. "Street." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Street.html |
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Street (Sráid) Westmeath. ‘Street’.
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A. D. MILLS. "Street." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Street." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Street1.html A. D. MILLS. "Street." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Street1.html |
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street
•accrete, beat, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat
•backbeat • heartbeat • deadbeat
•breakbeat • offbeat • browbeat
•downbeat • drumbeat • upbeat
•sugar beet • Blackfeet • flatfeet
•forefeet • exegete • polychaete
•lorikeet • parakeet
•athlete, biathlete, decathlete, heptathlete, pentathlete, triathlete
•kick-pleat • paraclete • obsolete
•gamete • crabmeat • sweetmeat
•mincemeat • forcemeat • backstreet
•concrete • window seat
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"street." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "street." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-street.html "street." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-street.html |
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