noun

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A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

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Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.

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A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

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I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

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The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.

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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.

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An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.

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I got some pot cheap on the street.

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Streetwise slang.

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A great distance.

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He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

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Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

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Living in the streets.

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a street cat; a street urchin

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(urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

verb

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To build or equip with streets.

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To eject; to throw onto the streets.

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(by extension) To heavily defeat.

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To go on sale.

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To proselytize in public.

Examples of streets in a Sentence

Darkness had fallen and the streets were silent.

I went into the streets of Cairo, and rode on the camel.

The streets are excellent, broad and regular.

The rest of the population lived on the streets or underground.

On the streets, I could do what I wanted.

His footsteps made no sounds, and the infected humans staggering through the streets walked through him.

There is actually no place in this village for a work of fine art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and streets, furnish no proper pedestal for it.

This guy doesn't deserve to walk the streets.

It pulled us off the streets.

The streets run in straight lines east and west or north and south.

Bird Song was empty when the Deans returned after retrieving the Jeep and making their way to the inn by back streets.

The quaint streets of Pacific Grove were quiet during the weekday, with a small group of women lingering in the midmorning sun at the café on the corner.

The town has wide streets and contains several old churches, one of which, a Roman Catholic church, built in the 14th century, has a tower 33 o ft.

Cobblestone streets, narrow alleyways and green open parks make this an ideal place to spend an afternoon exploring the past.

The next time we stand here, you will have marched through his streets with my army at your back and claimed his life.

Eden told me my mother's love for me was greater than her fear of the consequences of living in the streets, Xander said.

It is irregularly built, with narrow streets, but has a spacious market-place.

The old ramparts and bastions (excluding the circuit of the citadel of 1591, now in great part demolished, in the south-east) make an enceinte of about 41 m., but the enclosed area is not all occupied by streets and houses.

The fiction of Belisarius wandering as a blind beggar through the streets of Constantinople, which has been adopted by Marmontel in his Belisaire, and by various painters and poets, is first heard of in the 10th century.

A great meeting of citizens was then called and marched through the streets.

Barricades were thrown up in the principal streets, and the surrounding houses were occupied by the insurgents.

First there is the office or cabinet of the prefect for the general police (la police gnrale), with bureaus for various objects, such as the safety of the president of the republic, the regulation and order of public ceremonies, theatres, amusements and entertainments, &c.; secondly, the judicial police (la police judiciaire), with numerous bureaus also, in constant communication with the courts of judicature; thirdly, the administrative police (la police administrative) including bureaus, which superintend navigation, public carriages, animals, public health, &c. Concurrently with these divisions there is the municipal police, which comprises all the agents in enforcing police regulations in the streets or public thoroughfares, acting under the orders of a chief (chef de la police municipale) with a central bureau.

The town is a labyrinth of narrow, crooked streets, and some of its houses are Moorish in character.

It has the usual rectangular plan, with several pretty squares and straight, clean, well-paved streets.

The city is built with its streets running between the cardinal points of the compass and crossing each other at right angles.

Two intersecting central streets also divide the city into four sections, in each of which the streets are methodically named and numbered, as North 3rd, 5th, 7th, &c., or West 2nd, 4th, 6th, &c., according to direction and location.

The streets are narrow, but are clean and well-paved, and are lighted by electricity and gas.

Within the city the principal streets have been roughly paved, and iron bars placed across the narrow alleys to prevent the passage of camels.

The unhealthiness of the city is chiefly due to want of proper drainage, impure drinkingwater, miasma from the disturbed rubbish heaps, and contaminated dust from the uncleansed roads and streets.

No trace exists of the splendour of the ancient city, with its regular streets, well-ordered plan and numerous public buildings.

Of the streets, the best and widest is a long street which is still called the Street of the Knights.

The streets in the modern town are regularly laid out; several are arcaded on both sides.

The streets are narrow, tortuous and inaccessible to carriages.

The streets are joined by alleys just wide enough to pass through.

In the principal streets are memorial stones with inscriptions in honour of Charles V., surmounted by an old crucifix with a mosaic cross.

The wide streets are traversed by a system of tramways, which pass through modern suburbs to the mining district about two leagues inland, and on the west a canal enables small vessels to enter the town without using the port.

The United Telephone Company asked parliament for rights of way in streets but was refused, and its only right to place overhead wires was obtained by private wayleaves.

The application of the company for permission to lay wires in streets was again refused.

It also expressed willingness that the companies should have rights of way in the streets.

One day he gave a banquet to his friends, and after it they sallied forth with torches, singing through the streets, Francis being crowned with garlands as the king of the revellers; after a time they missed him, and on retracing their steps they found him in a trance or reverie, a permanently altered man.

The town dates from 1852, is attractively situated, and is regularly laid out with broad, straight streets crossing each other at right angles.

The streets of the city run irregularly up the steep face of the river bluffs.

They fortified their houses, retained their military habits, defied the consuls, and carried on feuds in the streets and squares.

On the 10th of March the garrison of Alessandria mutinied, and its example was followed on the 12th by that of Turin, where the Spanish constitution was demanded, and the black, red and blue flag of the Carbonari paraded the Streets.

The principal building is the state capitol (completed in 1857) in a square of ten acres at the intersection of High and Broad streets.

There are many fine streets and squares and some handsome public monuments, notably among the last the fountain on the market square surmounted by a statue of Charlemagne, the bronze equestrian statue of the emperor William I.

The streets of Portland are generally well paved, are unusually clean, and, in the residence districts, where the fire of 1866 did not extend, they are profusely shaded by elms and other large trees - Portland has been called the "Forest City."

The Post Office, at the corner of Exchange and Middle streets, is of white Vermont marble and has a Corinthian portico.

The Cumberland County Court House, of white Maine granite, occupies the block bounded by Federal, Pearl, Church and Newbury streets; immediately opposite (to the south-west) is the Federal Court building, also of Maine granite.

Many houses, especially in State, Danforth and Congress streets, are simple in style and old-fashioned in architecture.

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