high streetn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhʌɪ striːt/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪ ˌstrit/

Forms: see high adj. and n.² and street n. and adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., street n.

Etymology: < high adj. + street n. (compare discussion at high adj. and n.² Compounds 1). Compare post-classical Latin alta strata (from 8th cent. (frequently from 13th cent.) in British sources) and Anglo-Norman halte estrete (late 13th cent. with reference to a street in Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, or earlier), halte estrée (early 14th cent. or earlier), in senses ‘main road in a town’ and ‘public highway’.In Old English only attested with reference to boundary markers in charter bounds, where the topography is not always clear, although the sense is usually assumed to be ‘main road, highway, principal connecting route’ (compare quot. a1225 at sense A. 1, which refers to a Roman road). However, sometimes such a road may be so named due to the raised ground across which it runs (for instance, a ridgeway). The word is apparently earliest attested unambiguously with reference to a particular street in an English town (Oxford) in quot. c1300 at sense A. 1. It is also attested as a street name from a similar date, apparently earliest as Highestrete (1334 in a Latin context, apparently with reference to Newport, Isle of Wight). In early use the first element is sometimes treated as a normal adjective inflected for case (compare quot. a1225 at sense A. 1).

Chiefly British.

A. n.

1. Originally: a main road, either in a town or city or constituting a principal connecting route; a public highway; also in extended use. Later (chiefly with capital initials): (the name of) the main street of a town or city, often built on the highway; (now chiefly) the main shopping street of a town or city. Cf. main street n. 1.In early use often denoting a Roman road or street (see street n. 1a, and compare etymological note above), and still used as the name of certain Roman roads, esp. the one from Stainmore to Brougham in the English Lake District (and also, by extension, of the fell over which it passes).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > highway or public road

headwayOE

high streetOE

wayOE

port highwayOE

port-streetOE

port-wayOE

highway1257

high gate1324

thoroughfare1540

open road1656

rum pad1665

country road1669

toby lay1807

high toby spice1811

throughgang1856

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > main

master streetc1385

high street1548

town-gate1570

main street1598

master way1726

the main drag1851

main drag1851

main stem1900

OE Bounds (Sawyer 1361) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 315 Andlang sices þæt to þære hæhstræte, andlang stræte þæt in langan broc.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 89 (MED) Þat burh folc hihten þe hege strete and bihengen it mid palmes.

a1225 ( Bounds (Sawyer 896) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Pt. 2 (2001) 499 Of huredes more on ða hean streat [a1170 stret], andlang ðære hean stræte on motera ford.

c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) l. 381 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 442 Þoruȝ al þe heiȝe strete it leide on for wod.

c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 All the Fronntte of the seyde soyle, Aȝenst the hye Strete.

c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 105 Riȝt as syȝte serueth a man to se þe heighe strete.

1469 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 176 He shall do proclayme openly in high stretis and opyn places..that no maner person holde no comen eschaunge.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccx Broughte..through the hygh streates of London, too the cathedrall church of sainct Paule.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 38^v The milke way..is the high strete in heauen that goeth streight to Iupiters pallace.

1606 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 36 Yarme Bridge being a common and most necessarie passage..and being His Ma^ties high streete.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1599 The morning Trumpets Festival proclaim'd Through each high street .

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 69/2 High Streets..are designed for some certain purpose, especially any public one; as, for instance, those which lead to some Temple, or to the Course for Races, or to the Place of Justice.

1788 F. Burney Court Jrnls. & Lett. (2014) IV. 422 All Cheltenham was drawn out into the high street, the Gentles on one side, & the Commons on the other.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 208 The Catholics were allowed..to carry the host in procession anywhere except in the high streets of royal burghs.

1896 T. Whittaker Sights & Scenes Oxf. City & Univ. 185 High Street being called ‘the High’. The usage is similar with other well-known streets in Oxford.

1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) i. 24 Inside the city there was pandemonium, for the Morris dancers were in possession of the High Street.

1983 J. Gardam in J. Evans London Tales 182 The butcher in the High Street who delivered.

2012 Independent 26 Jan. 36/1 Head for your local high street, town centre or main road shopping strip... Just look at those empty shops.

2. By metonymy: the retail sector of the economy.

ΚΠ

1972 Times 16 Nov. 20/2 A piece of wooden furniture, engineered and made at an economic price, aimed at the High Street.

1981 Daily Tel. 29 Sept. 19/8 In the high street, both Marks and Spencer..and Great Universal Stores..have suffered equally.

1991 Economist 2 Nov. 38/3 So far 1991 has been a rotten year for the High Street.

2005 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 5/5 Fancy pants and beautiful bras have been one of the biggest innovations on the high street in recent years.

2012 Church Times 9 Nov. 27/5 All Saints' Eve—or Hallowe'en, as the high street knows it.

B. adj.

Located on or relating to a high street. Now frequently: spec. characteristic or typical of high streets in general, or the types of shop associated with them; (hence) intended for or readily available to the general public; popular, mainstream.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > types of shop

high streetc1600

co-op1872

multiple1903

fixed price1907

serve-self1909

serve-yourself1909

quick-service1910

self-serve1910

self-service1912

drive-through1918

Army and Navy1919

drive-in1930

one-stop1933

Army-Navy1934

full-service1934

mom-and-pop1942

walkround1950

ma-and-pa1965

pop-up1993

c1600 in Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1880) 3 324 Two dyalls w^thout the hall the one to serve the highe streete market and passars by.., and the oder towards the corne marckett.

1683 Short Advt. Scituation & Extent Philadelphia in W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 10 The High-street Lots begin towards the Fronts, at Number 44. and so reach to the Center.

1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset III. 375 The city of Wells..is divided into four verderies in the manner of wards, and thus denominated:—High Street Verdery, [etc.].

1798 R. Folwell Short Hist. Yellow Fever (ed. 2) Donations. sig. Bb4^v Butchers at High-street market, 3 barrow loads of meat.

1823 T. Wilson Picture of Philadelphia, for 1824 70 The width of the market-house is the same as the High street market.

1886 Overland Monthly Nov. 506/2 This was a quarter where High Street shops imitate the fashions of Bond and Regent Street at a fifth their model's prices.

1903 Union Mag. July 312/2 M^cEwan..unable to carry the heavy coffin ‘stotted’ it from step to step down a steep tortuous High Street stair.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xii. 242 In 1956 the majority of High Street shops were displaying ‘Mother's Day’ gifts in their windows.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 16 At the moment they appear very extreme and certainly not for the traditional ‘High Street mum’.

1979 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 22/6 Now the High Street banks are taking a tougher line.

1995 Sunday Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. If this is a bit high street for you, then there is only one place to go in the Grove.

2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Apr. 10 I like taking something old and reinventing it and I don't want a totally high-street look.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high street
释义	high streetn.adj. Brit. /ˈhʌɪ striːt/, U.S. /ˈhaɪ ˌstrit/ Forms: see high adj. and n.² and street n. and adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., street n. Etymology: < high adj. + street n. (compare discussion at high adj. and n.² Compounds 1). Compare post-classical Latin alta strata (from 8th cent. (frequently from 13th cent.) in British sources) and Anglo-Norman halte estrete (late 13th cent. with reference to a street in Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, or earlier), halte estrée (early 14th cent. or earlier), in senses ‘main road in a town’ and ‘public highway’.In Old English only attested with reference to boundary markers in charter bounds, where the topography is not always clear, although the sense is usually assumed to be ‘main road, highway, principal connecting route’ (compare quot. a1225 at sense A. 1, which refers to a Roman road). However, sometimes such a road may be so named due to the raised ground across which it runs (for instance, a ridgeway). The word is apparently earliest attested unambiguously with reference to a particular street in an English town (Oxford) in quot. c1300 at sense A. 1. It is also attested as a street name from a similar date, apparently earliest as Highestrete (1334 in a Latin context, apparently with reference to Newport, Isle of Wight). In early use the first element is sometimes treated as a normal adjective inflected for case (compare quot. a1225 at sense A. 1). Chiefly British. A. n. 1. Originally: a main road, either in a town or city or constituting a principal connecting route; a public highway; also in extended use. Later (chiefly with capital initials): (the name of) the main street of a town or city, often built on the highway; (now chiefly) the main shopping street of a town or city. Cf. main street n. 1.In early use often denoting a Roman road or street (see street n. 1a, and compare etymological note above), and still used as the name of certain Roman roads, esp. the one from Stainmore to Brougham in the English Lake District (and also, by extension, of the fell over which it passes). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > highway or public road headwayOE high streetOE wayOE port highwayOE port-streetOE port-wayOE highway1257 high gate1324 thoroughfare1540 open road1656 rum pad1665 country road1669 toby lay1807 high toby spice1811 throughgang1856 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [noun] > main master streetc1385 high street1548 town-gate1570 main street1598 master way1726 the main drag1851 main drag1851 main stem1900 OE Bounds (Sawyer 1361) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 315 Andlang sices þæt to þære hæhstræte, andlang stræte þæt in langan broc. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 89 (MED) Þat burh folc hihten þe hege strete and bihengen it mid palmes. a1225 ( Bounds (Sawyer 896) in S. E. Kelly Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Pt. 2 (2001) 499 Of huredes more on ða hean streat [a1170 stret], andlang ðære hean stræte on motera ford. c1300 St. Edmund Rich (Laud) l. 381 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 442 Þoruȝ al þe heiȝe strete it leide on for wod. c1384 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 231 All the Fronntte of the seyde soyle, Aȝenst the hye Strete. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xii. l. 105 Riȝt as syȝte serueth a man to se þe heighe strete. 1469 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 176 He shall do proclayme openly in high stretis and opyn places..that no maner person holde no comen eschaunge. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccx Broughte..through the hygh streates of London, too the cathedrall church of sainct Paule. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 38^v The milke way..is the high strete in heauen that goeth streight to Iupiters pallace. 1606 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 36 Yarme Bridge being a common and most necessarie passage..and being His Ma^ties high streete. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1599 The morning Trumpets Festival proclaim'd Through each high street . View more context for this quotation 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 69/2 High Streets..are designed for some certain purpose, especially any public one; as, for instance, those which lead to some Temple, or to the Course for Races, or to the Place of Justice. 1788 F. Burney Court Jrnls. & Lett. (2014) IV. 422 All Cheltenham was drawn out into the high street, the Gentles on one side, & the Commons on the other. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 208 The Catholics were allowed..to carry the host in procession anywhere except in the high streets of royal burghs. 1896 T. Whittaker Sights & Scenes Oxf. City & Univ. 185 High Street being called ‘the High’. The usage is similar with other well-known streets in Oxford. 1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) i. 24 Inside the city there was pandemonium, for the Morris dancers were in possession of the High Street. 1983 J. Gardam in J. Evans London Tales 182 The butcher in the High Street who delivered. 2012 Independent 26 Jan. 36/1 Head for your local high street, town centre or main road shopping strip... Just look at those empty shops. 2. By metonymy: the retail sector of the economy. ΚΠ 1972 Times 16 Nov. 20/2 A piece of wooden furniture, engineered and made at an economic price, aimed at the High Street. 1981 Daily Tel. 29 Sept. 19/8 In the high street, both Marks and Spencer..and Great Universal Stores..have suffered equally. 1991 Economist 2 Nov. 38/3 So far 1991 has been a rotten year for the High Street. 2005 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 5/5 Fancy pants and beautiful bras have been one of the biggest innovations on the high street in recent years. 2012 Church Times 9 Nov. 27/5 All Saints' Eve—or Hallowe'en, as the high street knows it. B. adj. Located on or relating to a high street. Now frequently: spec. characteristic or typical of high streets in general, or the types of shop associated with them; (hence) intended for or readily available to the general public; popular, mainstream. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [adjective] > relating to shop > types of shop high streetc1600 co-op1872 multiple1903 fixed price1907 serve-self1909 serve-yourself1909 quick-service1910 self-serve1910 self-service1912 drive-through1918 Army and Navy1919 drive-in1930 one-stop1933 Army-Navy1934 full-service1934 mom-and-pop1942 walkround1950 ma-and-pa1965 pop-up1993 c1600 in Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1880) 3 324 Two dyalls w^thout the hall the one to serve the highe streete market and passars by.., and the oder towards the corne marckett. 1683 Short Advt. Scituation & Extent Philadelphia in W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 10 The High-street Lots begin towards the Fronts, at Number 44. and so reach to the Center. 1791 J. Collinson Hist. & Antiq. Somerset III. 375 The city of Wells..is divided into four verderies in the manner of wards, and thus denominated:—High Street Verdery, [etc.]. 1798 R. Folwell Short Hist. Yellow Fever (ed. 2) Donations. sig. Bb4^v Butchers at High-street market, 3 barrow loads of meat. 1823 T. Wilson Picture of Philadelphia, for 1824 70 The width of the market-house is the same as the High street market. 1886 Overland Monthly Nov. 506/2 This was a quarter where High Street shops imitate the fashions of Bond and Regent Street at a fifth their model's prices. 1903 Union Mag. July 312/2 M^cEwan..unable to carry the heavy coffin ‘stotted’ it from step to step down a steep tortuous High Street stair. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xii. 242 In 1956 the majority of High Street shops were displaying ‘Mother's Day’ gifts in their windows. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 16 At the moment they appear very extreme and certainly not for the traditional ‘High Street mum’. 1979 Daily Mail 12 Dec. 22/6 Now the High Street banks are taking a tougher line. 1995 Sunday Times (Nexis) 12 Nov. If this is a bit high street for you, then there is only one place to go in the Grove. 2004 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Apr. 10 I like taking something old and reinventing it and I don't want a totally high-street look. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.OE
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