street
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.