street

(noun, adjective, verb)

adjective

1. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.

noun

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

- they walked the streets of the small town

- he lives on Nassau Street

Definition categories: man–made, thoroughfare

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

- be careful crossing the street

Definition categories: man–made, thoroughfare

3. 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

Definition categories: state, environment

4. a situation offering opportunities

- he worked both sides of the street

- cooperation is a two-way street

Definition categories: state, chance, opportunity

5. people living or working on the same street

- the whole street protested the absence of street lights

Definition categories: group, neighborhood, neighbourhood

Sentences with street as a noun:

- Walk down the street.

- I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

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

- I got some pot cheap on the street.

verb

1. To build or equip with streets.

2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.

3. (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.

4. To go on sale.

5. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.