avenuenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈæv.ə.njuː/us/ˈæv.ə.nuː/avenue noun [ C ] (ROAD)
C1 a wide road with trees or tall buildings on both sides, or a wide country path or road with trees on both sides:
Fremont Avenue
UK a road that leads to a large house
More examples
- This avenue of mature trees has a preservation order on it.
- We walked down a broad avenue lined with trees.
- The Saint Patrick's Day marchers paraded up Fifth Avenue, past the cathedral.
- King's Avenue is the first right.
- The broad avenues are shaded by splendid trees.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Roads: urban & residential streets
- access road
- artery
- Ave
- backstreets
- Blvd
- boulevard
- crescent
- drive
- driveway
- lane
- main drag
- main street
- mews
- parkway
- plaza
- Rd
- row 1
- seafront
- square
- woonerf
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avenue noun [ C ] (POSSIBILITY)
C2 a method or way of doing something:
We should explore/pursue every avenue in the search for an answer to this problem.
Only two avenues are open to us - either we accept his offer or we give up the fight completely.
Synonym
possibility
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Possible and probable
- (the) chances are idiom
- always
- anything's possible idiom
- arguably
- as never before idiom
- be a fair bet idiom
- course
- lean towards sth
- liable
- likelihood
- likely
- may well idiom
- sporting chance
- stand
- strange
- stranger things have happened idiom
- strong
- ten
- ten to one idiom
- vista
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