Added 9 October 2026
street
/stɹiːt/ noun
In Latin: via, vicus, platea Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about street at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings.
they walked the streets of the small town
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The part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel.
be careful crossing the street
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The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction.
she tried to keep her children off the street
Origin
Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Doublet of estrade and stratum.
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