单词 | many-streeted |
释义 | > as lemmasmany-streeted Of a town, city, etc.: that has streets. Frequently as the second element in compounds, as many-streeted, open-streeted, etc.For more established compounds, as cobble-streeted, narrow-streeted, steep-streeted, wide-streeted, etc., see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [adjective] > provided with streets streeted?1614 ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses vii. 100 Out flew Marathon, And ample-streeted Athens lighted on. 1823 J. Baillie in Coll. of Poems 300 And streeted town, of high pretence, As rolls away the vapour dense,..is but a row of pollard willows. 1863 G. T. Vigne Trav. Mexico, South Amer. II. 119 A large open-streeted town in the middle of an extensive plain, yellow with the blossoms of the broom and acacia trees. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 201 Though a house of the windy battle their streeted burg be grown. 1930 H. Walpole Rogue Herries (1931) iv. 652 Crowded inns, the noise and smells of streeted towns. 1961 E. K. Gann Fate is Hunter viii. 123 Santa Cruz was a mud-streeted town with its tile-roofed dwellings protruding like a rash from the green hide of the jungle. 1991 R. Silverberg Thebes of Hundred Gates 46 He could see now another many-streeted tangle of low..buildings. 2001 N.Y. Times 4 Jan. f6/2 In building this house, I believe I have committed an act of freedom. I am out of the box, off the streeted grid. < as lemmas |
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