Meaning

noun a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

noun the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel

noun the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster- Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós Proto-Italic *strātos Latin strātus Latin via strātaellip. Late Latin strātabor. Proto-West Germanic *strātu Anglian Old English strēt Middle English strete English street Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare West Saxon…

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