street
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
street/striːt/
▶noun
- 1 a public road in a city, town, or village, typically with buildings on one or both sides.
- 2 [as modifier] relating to the subculture of fashionable urban youth.
- 3 [as modifier] homeless: street children.
– phrases
not in the same street Brit. informal far inferior in terms of ability.
on the streets
up (or right up) one's street (or N. Amer. alley) informal well suited to one's tastes, interests, or abilities.
not in the same street Brit. informal far inferior in terms of ability.
on the streets
- 1 homeless.
- 2 working as a prostitute.
up (or right up) one's street (or N. Amer. alley) informal well suited to one's tastes, interests, or abilities.
– derivatives
-streeted adjective.
-streeted adjective.
– origin OE strǣt, of W. Gmc origin, from late L. strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, fem. past part. of sternere ‘lay down’.
'street' also found in these Oxford entries:
backstreet
- barrow
- barrow boy
- boulevard
- Bow Street Runner
- break-dancing
- busk
- civvy
- close
- corner boy
- costermonger
- credibility
- crescent
- crossing
- cul-de-sac
- Dr
- drag
- easy street
- facade
- flag day
- flamboyant
- flea market
- fly-pitcher
- frontage
- gamin
- gate
- Grub Street
- gutter
- guttersnipe
- H
- hawk
- high street
- hokey-pokey
- lamplighter
- lamp post
- lane
- light pollution
- main drag
- man
- mariachi
- muppet
- one-man band
- organ-grinder
- P
- panhandle
- parking meter
- passacaglia
- pavé
- pavement
- pedestrianize
