street

English

/stɹiːt/, /ʃtɹiːt/, [skɹitˤ]

noun
Definitions
  • A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
  • A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
  • 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.
  • (slang) Streetwise slang.
  • (figuratively) A great distance.
  • (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
  • (attributive) Living in the streets.
  • (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English streete inherited from Old English strǣt (a street, high road, a road, a town-road, a paved road, road) inherited from *strātu (street) derived from Latin strātus (layer) derived from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (spread, extend, stretch out, scatter, strew, floar, spread out, bring down, be broad), *sterh₃- (spread, extend, stretch out, scatter, strew, floar, spread out, bring down, be broad).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*sterh₃-

Gloss

spread, extend, stretch out, scatter, strew, floar, spread out, bring down, be broad

Concept
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Basic actions and technology

Ontological Category

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