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STREET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
Example:
he lives on Nassau Street
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):
thoroughfare (a public road from one place to another)
Meronyms (substance of "street"):
pavement; paving (the paved surface of a thoroughfare)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street"):
alley; alleyway; back street (a narrow street with walls on both sides)
avenue; boulevard (a wide street or thoroughfare)
cross street (a street intersecting a main street (usually at right angles) and continuing on both sides of it)
local road; local street (a street that is primarily used to gain access to the property bordering it)
high street; main street (street that serves as a principal thoroughfare for traffic in a town)
mews (street lined with buildings that were originally private stables but have been remodeled as dwellings)
rue ((French) a street or road in France)
side street (a street intersecting a main street and terminating there)
Instance hyponyms:
Wall St.; Wall Street (a street in lower Manhattan where the New York Stock Exchange is located; symbol of American finance)
Park Ave.; Park Avenue (a fashionable residential street in New York City)
Broadway; Great White Way (a street in Manhattan that passes through Times Square; famous for its theaters)
Bowery (a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts)
Champs Elysees (a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes)
Quai d'Orsay (the street in Paris along the south bank of the Seine known for its governmental ministries)
Pall Mall (a fashionable street in London noted for its many private clubs)
Downing Street (a street of Westminster in London)
Strand (a street in west central London famous for its theaters and hotels)
Whitehall (a wide street in London stretching from Trafalgar Square to the Houses of Parliament; site of many government offices)
Lombard Street (a street in central London containing many of the major London banks)
Harley Street (a street in central London where the consulting rooms of many physicians and surgeons are located)
Fleet Street (a street in central London where newspaper offices are situated)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
Example:
be careful crossing the street
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):
thoroughfare (a public road from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street"):
one-way street (a street on which vehicular traffic is allowed to move in only one direction)
two-way street (a street on which vehicular traffic can move in either of two directions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
People living or working on the same street
Example:
the whole street protested the absence of street lights
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):
neighborhood; neighbourhood (people living near one another)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A situation offering opportunities
Example:
cooperation is a two-way street
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):
chance; opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
Example:
she tried to keep her children off the street
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("street" is a kind of...):
environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)
Holonyms ("street" is a part of...):
concrete jungle (an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant)
Context examples:
You may feel anxious before you take a test or walk down a dark street.
(Anxiety, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
(i.e., another doctor, the Emergency Room, friends, street source)
(COMM - Other Sources for Pain Medication, NCI Thesaurus)
A junction where one street or road crosses another.
(Intersection, NCI Thesaurus)
Yes, but there is another empty house farther up the street which he must have passed before he came to this one.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He bowed me out, and I found myself in the street, hardly knowing whether I was on my head or my heels.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Late next morning Buck led the long team up the street.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The streets will be crowded, so I trust that you may be in safety.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I put my hand in his, wondering who he was, and we walked away to a shop in a narrow street, on which was written OMER, DRAPER, TAILOR, HABERDASHER, FUNERAL FURNISHER, &c.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The street was small and what is called quiet, but it drove a thriving trade on the weekdays.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It looks like you will be dancing in the streets when the news arrives.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
