a means of access or attainment: avenues of escape; avenues to greater power.
a way or means of entering into or approaching a place: the various avenues to India.
Chiefly British.
a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building.
a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.
Origin of avenue
First recorded in 1590–1600; from French, literally, “approach,” noun use of feminine past participle of avenir, from Latin advenīre “to come to.” See a-5, venue
synonym study for avenue
1. See street.
Words nearby avenue
avens, aventail, Aventine, aventurine, Aventyl, avenue, Avenzoar, aver, average, average adjuster, average deviation
You hurry out of the neighborhood, across the avenue that divides one section of town from another, relieved when you reach home.
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There are other avenues in biotechnology beyond gene editing that may help reduce the cattle industry’s footprint.
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So mathematicians hoped that Bateman and Katz’s breakthrough might offer an avenue into proving the Erdős conjecture, especially when combined with other recent advances.
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The Coronado City Council could decide this month whether to pursue a legal challenge, and the best avenue to do so.
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Economists have long pointed to home-ownership as a major avenue for building family wealth.
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And the bells chimed for victory at 1211 Avenue of the Americas.
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The marchers began to stream out of the park, where they walked West on 110th and then hung a right on 7th Avenue.
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Metamorphosis is running at Lincoln Center, 63rd Street and 9th Avenue, until January 11, 2015.
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I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th Avenue in lower Manhattan.
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James Ferguson, 29, a design student and paralegal, who lives on 89th and 1st Avenue, is among them.
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As he turned into the avenue himself, Miss Merry, who was far ahead, happened to look back.
Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit|Charles Dickens
Soon I should have to give in, for the horses made merry play down the avenue.
Simon Dale|Anthony Hope
The young people gazed after it, till the closing of the great gates at the end of the avenue excluded it from their view.
The Flower Basket|Unknown
On the left, where the hedges and the avenue were not so thick, the waggons were piled one upon another to make a barrier.
Life of Edward the Black Prince|Louise Creighton
The avenue was free from weeds and in order, the two gates beyond him were new and substantial.
The Shuttle|Frances Hodgson Burnett
British Dictionary definitions for avenue
avenue
/ (ˈævɪˌnjuː) /
noun
a broad street, often lined with trees
(capital as part of a street name)a road, esp in a built-up areaShaftesbury Avenue
a main approach road, as to a country house
a way bordered by two rows of treesan avenue of oaks
a line of approachexplore every avenue
Word Origin for avenue
C17: from French, from avenir to come to, from Latin advenīre, from venīre to come