street
/striːt
/- It has become impossible to pass through streets and roads at night because of dogs.
- Do you know how hard it is to walk through the shattered streets of my city and see how hard it fell?
- The amount of chewing gum stuck on roads and streets around the country drives me up the wall.
Synonyms
- The morning of our High Court appearance a huge crowd of students held up the streets.
- Children will be given the chance to use the climbing wall in an effort to get them off the streets.
- The sky is grey and unemployment is high, and the streets are awash with plastic bags.
- About a quarter of our clients are homeless street kids, but the rest live and work in Hollywood.
- The perception that many people have of street beggars and the homeless is that they are a bunch of alcoholics or drug addicts.
- He spoke to me as a homeless street kid, and he continues to do so.
- His car looked out of place and his use of urban street lingo was confusing.
- More than just something to put on your feet, sneakers have been part of street culture, sports and fashion for decades.
- When you go to music industry events, you find people who say they want to represent this urban music, this street thing.
Phrases
not in the same street
on the streets
streets ahead
Derivatives
streeted
streetward
- It appeared to have derived from a structure that stood streetward of the outbuilding.
- As midday crowds watched from sidewalks and shops, rescue helicopters set gingerly down on the building top, their rotors pushing smoke streetward as they landed.
- Soon she is hurtling streetward as an Agent blasts away at her.
Origin
Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) 'paved (way)', feminine past participle of sternere 'lay down'.
A street is literally a road with a paved surface, based on Latin strata via ‘paved way’. Some ancient Roman roads in Britain preserve this usage in their names, such as Watling Street (from Dover to Wroxeter) and Ermine Street (from London to Lincoln and York). The modern use, referring to a public road in a city, town, or village that runs between lines of houses and buildings, goes back to Anglo-Saxon times. We have used the phrase the man on the street to refer to an ordinary person in contrast to an expert since the early 19th century. See also man, queer
Rhymes
- mother's knee
- mother's little helper
- mothers' meeting
- mother's meeting
- mother's milk
- mother's pet
- mother's ruin
- mother's side
- mother's son
- mother-substitute
- Mothers' Union
- Mother's Union
- Mother Superior
- mother surrogate
- mother-symbol
- mother tincture
- mother-to-be
- mother tongue
- mother wasp
- Motherwell, Robert
- motherwise
- mother wit
- motherwort
- mothery
- mother yaw