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单词 streetward
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streetwardn.1

Forms: see street n. and adj. and ward n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: street n., ward n.2
Etymology: < street n. + ward n.2Earlier currency is implied by Anglo-Norman stretwarde (c1150), and post-classical Latin stretwarda (from late 12th cent. in British sources), both borrowings < English. Compare:c1150 Laws of William I in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. xxviii. 512 (heading) De stretwarde [a1350 Pseudo-Ingulf strewarde]: De chascuns x hides del hundred un hume dedenz la feste seint Michel e la seint Martin.
Obsolete. rare.
Probably: a payment for keeping order in the streets; the office of guarding the streets.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > guarding the streets
streetward1255
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > market dues > [noun] > other market dues
lovecop1252
streetward1255
pillagea1513
1255 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 55 (MED) Una hid..dat motfey iiijor d., stretward iiijor d.
a1272 Cal. Inquisitions (1904) I. 138 (MED) [The township of Clebury Mortimer used to..pay 5 s. yearly for] stretward [and] motfeh.
a1600 Chronicum Abbatiæ de Stanlaw (Cleo. C.iii) f. 323v Preteræ idm comes dedit prefato Nigello constabulario suo de streteward in nundinis cestriæ & marketzeld in omni tera pertinente ad honorem de haulton.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

streetwardn.2adv.adj.

Brit. /ˈstriːtwəd/, U.S. /ˈstritwərd/
Forms: see street n. and adj. and -ward suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: street n., -ward suffix.
Etymology: < street n. + -ward suffix.
A. n.2
With to (also into): the direction facing or leading to the street. Obsolete.
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1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Reijcio The gate is opened into the streatewarde.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. F2 He that had more minde to spie the clothes, then to looke on her fauour, at last perceiued them in a Parlour that stood to the street ward.
1596 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 116 No Inhabitante..shall make or suffer any myddinge within this towne to the streetewarde.
1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 70 The buildings..are..very handsomely and uniformely set out to the street-ward.
B. adv.
In a direction or position towards or on to the street.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [adverb] > towards the street
streetward1873
1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell iii. 46 Let his Chamber be street ward.
1749 Let. J. Pigott 21 Her Mistress..thereupon took up a large Bible covered with Ratteen, which always stood, in her Mistress's own Bed-Chamber, two Pair of Stairs Streetward.
1796 M. C. Walker Equity Pleader's Assistant I. 322 All the rooms in the said house were streetward.
1819 Q. Jrnl. Sci. & Arts Apr. 113 Sir William Chambers designed to have continued the front streetward to the whole extent of the building.
1822 S. Douglas tr. N. Forteguerri Ist Canto Ricciardetto lxxxv. 93 See how he staggers! See him streetward reel.
1873 W. Morris Love is Enough 22 He gained the gate that gave streetward.
1923 A. Adams Spirit Amer. Sculpt. v. 10 The pure white marble bust..was in a measure suppressed by placing it looking streetward, between the parted lace curtains.
1957 T. Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel 238 When his attention was diverted,..[she] tore off on fear-quick feet, streetward to the haven of the Tarkintons' house.
2007 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 18 July (Late ed.) b1 Two girls cantered streetward, down a flight of stairs, out into the sunshine.
C. adj.
That faces or opens out on to the street.
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the world > space > relative position > opposite position > [adjective] > facing > facing specific thing
streetward1842
landward1844
hillward1870
street front1894
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [adjective] > facing a street
streetward1842
street front1894
1842 J. Banim & M. Banim Father Connell I. 246 He will stop to this day, before the streetward archway, and look into the two quadrangles.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 10 Their little streetward sitting-room.
1904 L. M. J. Garnett Turkish Life Town & Country I. ii. 16 The dwellings of the artisans and working classes..having latticed blinds on their streetward windows.
1992 Times (Nexis) 11 July Were you to walk past, you would probably reckon that it was closed:..the streetward section of its interior is habitually deserted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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