street
/stɹit/ noun A1- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town. · Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.· The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. · I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.· I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
- The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs. · I got some pot cheap on the street.· The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
- Living in the streets. · a street cat· a street urchin
- Streetwise slang.
Plural streets
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About twenty minutes he waited, and then a tall man in a long overcoat, with collar turned up to his ears, hurried across from the opposite side of the street.
The time was barely 10 o’clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh de-peopled the streets.
Still going past me in the street.
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
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