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Meaning street meaning

What does street mean?

Definitions in simple English

street Noun

— A road in a city with buildings on the sides and places where people can walk. I saw a woman with a dog walking down the street.

street

— noun a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings they walked the streets of the small town he lives on Nassau Street — noun the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel be careful crossing the street — noun the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction she tried to keep her children off the street — noun a situation offering opportunities he worked both sides of the street cooperation is a two-way street — noun people living or working on the same street the whole street protested the absence of street lights

Synonyms street synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as street?

street English » English

road path avenue way lane trail alley thoroughfare route boulevard track highway town roadway method crossroad course square passage village street village tracks townscape towards terrace state run rue river residence race quarters quarter public road principal road plan pike pathway pass pace neighbourhood neighborhood narrow street narrow passage mule middle market main street main road house

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Topics street topics

What do people use street to talk about?

Work and occupation Working with buildings Infrastructure

Road

What types of roads are there?

road street lane path footpath way avenue boulevard highway freeway thoroughfare divided highway paved road dirt road improved road unimproved road
What words are used to describe when two roads come together?

corner cross street fork intersection juncture pedestrian crossing interchange overpass underpass exit

Social behavior Relationships

Neighbor

What words indicate that someone lives nearby?

be neighbors live next to each other live near each other live in the same neighborhood live on the same street live nearby
What words refer to the area around your house?

neighborhood community our street our area subdivision housing development compound apartment complex district vicinity environs

Social behavior Behavior Love

Abandon

What words refer to someone who has been abandoned?

abandoned child waif street kid

Social behavior Government

Ruler

What words refer to the house of the ruler?

palace castle White House number 10 Downing Street

Physical actions Move Travel

Examples street examples

How do I use street in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Where does this street lead to?

We live in that apartment just over the street.

I saw an old man fall on his back in the street.

There is a crowd of people on the street.

Walking along the street, I met an old friend of mine.

I was walking down the street when suddenly someone tapped me on the shoulder.

Our parents live right across the street from us.

What's this street called?

The street is wet.

You will take the second street.

It will be Karlova street.

That is the Charles street.

The new bank is on Baker Street.

I parked on the street in front of your house.

It is easier to hit on people on the Internet than in the street.

This is a dead-end street.

I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp.

By chance, I met her in the street.

I walked about aimlessly on the street.

I can see some people walking across the street.

A boy is walking across the street.

Rod lives across the street from John.

Many restaurants and pubs are on Itsutsugi Street.

I met him on the street by chance.

The bus stop is across the street.

The bus stopped suddenly in the middle of the street.

Never go across the street without looking for cars first.

Is the Ginza the busiest street in Japan?

The church is just across the street.

The flower shop is just across the street.

Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the street.

After the rain, there were puddles on the street.

Avoid crossing this street when it is raining.

A cat ran across the street.

I remember seeing her once on the street.

Can you tell me where Main Street is?

Could you tell me how to get to Park Street?

Movie subtitles

One minute, you're walking down the street, the next minute, you're in a big musical.

The worst is when it's alternate side of the street parking, 'cause then I got to park it in back.

The second I saw you on the street in New York, I knew.

And if it's the people across the street from that church, just tell them I don't believe and will never believe.

Empty your truck onto the street.

One street is college kids.

The next street over is Murdertown.

But you stay in the play street, do you hear me?

In the play street, and nowhere else!

I think that maybe your mum told you you could only stay in the play street where it's safe.

Why didn't you stay in the play street, Wesley?

She said there was some kind of skating exhibition down by Cherry Street.

Melinda Street?

So, most of the street is mine.

The street is closed.

They were moving at significantly high speed. But there seems to have been some sort of explosion near 52nd Street.

By the light of the street lamp she looked me up and down with eyes. a smile.

In the safety of an orphanage, the former street urchin is immersed in reading about real cowboys.

She took me through the theater to the main entrance on the street.

Would you mind crossing the street when it's red?

And he walked on the street. And danced!

Say, there's a lonesome touring car down the street.

Come out of the street, young man.

So. you're a street vendor.

Where'd you meet? On the street?

Jack, you head down by Front Street.

This program comes to you courtesy of the Golden Goose Furniture Company. 125th Street, 125th Street and 125th Street.

The next street over is Murdertown. Murdertown?

The tyrant of Melchior Street: Josef Geiringer.

In the cellar of a house on Melchior Street lives the Lechner family.

You street urchin!

She was found in a Hotel at Melchior Street strangled and robbed.

Arrest that man, down below in the street.

News and current affairs

He carried out these orders ruthlessly, his troops shooting down over 100 unarmed street demonstrators.

When he goes, dangerous elements on Wall Street will no doubt breathe a sigh of relief.

Even The Wall Street Journal, usually financial markets' loudest cheerleader, openly disparaged the tests' integrity.

Both Wall Street's chieftains and the Obama administration already knew the truth.

The feared implosion of Wall Street seems to have been avoided.

The Wall Street Journal's Justin Lahart reports that the 2010 share was higher than the previous peak share in 2006.

When we macroeconomists talk to our friends on Wall Street, we find that they don't view this as a puzzle at all.

The dollar will fall and US long-term interest rates will rise, but only when traders on Wall Street and elsewhere decide that holding dollars and long-term US bonds is more risky in the short run.

These special interests included Wall Street, Big Oil, the big health insurers, and arms manufacturers.

Financial deregulation enriched Wall Street, but ended up creating a global economic crisis through fraud, excessive risk-taking, incompetence, and insider dealing.

This raises the spectre of street fighting through Baghdad, desperate use of biological or chemical weapons, an attack to draw in Israel, numerous military and civilian deaths and the further destruction of a ravaged society.

The fundamental cause, according to the likes of John McCain, was greed and corruption on Wall Street.

The anger of Tea Party Republicans (like the anger of Occupy Wall Street protesters) reflects a sense that nothing but dramatic, even revolutionary, measures can change the system.

After all, the majority of observers (analysts, too) had concluded that Wall Street was overvalued, even before the onset of the Asian crisis.

This narrative - the standard Keynesian line, modified for a debt crisis - is the one to which most government officials, central bankers, and Wall Street economists have subscribed, and needs little elaboration.

CAMBRIDGE - Who will suffer the longest and the most from the implosion in 2008-2009 of Wall Street and the ensuing world recession?

No significant Wall Street voices acknowledged his concerns - preferring instead to praise the equity markets as a shining example of well-functioning technology.

But Somalia soon demonstrated that quagmires can be a two-way street.

Moreover, nationalizing banks would have required dismissing Wall Street captains and their boards for grossly mismanaging their firms.

Wall Street's titans, however, had convinced Obama and his team that their continued stewardship was essential to getting the world out of its crisis.

Instead, public servants now appear to be in cahoots with Wall Street to engineer an artificial aura of profitability.

Once sacrosanct accounting principles have been amended at Wall Street's behest in order to allow banks to report essentially whatever they want.

Meanwhile, Wall Street chieftains and their boards of directors have nothing to fear from government.

His administration is filled with Wall Street bankers.

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