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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishstrete, fromAnglian Old Englishstrēt(“street”) (cognate West Saxon formstrǣt) fromProto-West Germanic*strātu(“street”), an early borrowing fromLate Latin (via)strāta(“paved (road)”), fromLatinstrātus, past participle ofsternō(“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), fromProto-Indo-European*sterh₃-(“to stretch out, extend, spread”).

Cognate withScotsstret,strete,streit(“street”),Saterland FrisianSträite(“street”),West Frisianstrjitte(“street”),Dutchstraat(“street”) (see doubletstraat),German Low GermanStraat(“street”),GermanStraße(“street”),Swedishstråt(“way, path”),Icelandicstræti(“street”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portugueseestrada(“road, way, drive”), Italianstrada(“road, street”). Related toOld Englishstrēowian,strewian(“to strew, scatter”),Latinsternō, AncientGreekστορνύναι(stornýnai). More atstrew.

The/aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted byAnglo-Frisian brightening to/æː/ in West Saxon and/eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to/ɛː/ and/eː/ in Middle English,/ɛː/ and/iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally/iː/ in Modern English by theGreat Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as insleep,greedy,sheep.

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Noun

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street (pluralstreets)

a street
  1. Apaved part ofroad, usually in avillage or atown.
    Walk down thestreet until you see a hotel on the right.
  2. A road as above, but including thesidewalks (pavements) andbuildings.
    I live on thestreet down from Joyce Avenue.
  3. (specifically, US) The roads that run perpendicular toavenues in agrid layout.
  4. Metonymic senses:
    1. Thepeople who live in such a road, as aneighborhood.
    2. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street inurban areas, especially, theyoung, thepoor, theunemployed, and those engaged inillegal activities.
      • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page24:
        Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of thestreets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
    3. An illicit or contrabandsource, especially ofdrugs.
      I got some pot cheap on thestreet.
      The seized drugs had astreet value of $5 million.
    4. (finance)Ellipsis ofWall Street.
      Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by thestreet.
      Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging outstreet estimates for $541.4 million.
  5. (attributive) Living in the streets.
    astreet cat
  6. (slang, uncountable)Streetwiseslang.
    • 2008, Andrew Fleming, Pam Brady,Hamlet 2, Focus Features:
      Toaster isstreet for guns.
  7. (slang, in theplural) People in general, as asource ofinformation.
    Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
  8. (figuratively) A great distance.
    He'sstreets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
    • 2011, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1]:
      England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by astreet.
  9. (pokerslang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after theflop,turn andriver.
  10. (uncountable, sports) A style ofskateboarding featuring typicallyurbanobstacles.

Usage notes

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  • In the generic sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably withroad,avenue, and other similar terms.
  • In its narrow usage,street specifically means apaved route within asettlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while aroad is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notablyManhattan,New York City), streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets.
  • In the sense of "a road", the prepositionsin andon have distinct meanings when used withstreet, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the street without looking", "I met her when walking on the street").
  • By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".

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Translations

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paved part of road in a village or a town
broader sense

Adjective

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street (comparativemorestreet,superlativemoststreet)

  1. (slang) Havingstreet cred; conforming to modernurban trends.
    • 2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen,Mad Maudlin:
      Eric had to admit that she lookedstreet—upscalestreet, but stillstreet. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

Verb

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street (third-person singular simple presentstreets,present participlestreeting,simple past and past participlestreeted)

  1. Tobuild orequip with streets.
    • 1619 July 15 (Gregorian calendar),James Howell, “XII. To SirJames Crofts. Antwerp.”, inEpistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published1655,→OCLC, section I,page17:
      There are few places on this ſide theAlps better built, and ſo wellStreeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks.
    • 1999, Ralph C. Hancock,America, the West, and Liberal Education, Rowman & Littlefield,→ISBN, page89:
      After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor,streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier.
    • 2011, Robert White,Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc,→ISBN:
      There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which wasstreeted over.
  2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
    • 1959,The Irish Digest:
      Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick atstreeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre wasstreeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.
  3. (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
    • 2002, John Maynard,Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press, published2013,→ISBN, part II,96:
      Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as theystreeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
    • 2008, Steve Menzies, Norman Tasker, chapter 1, inBeaver: The Steve Menzies Story, Allen & Unwin,→ISBN, page5:
      But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtuallystreeted the rest of the competition.
    • 2014, Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls,Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian, McFarland & Company, Inc.,→ISBN, part VI, chapter 14,205:
      Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul hadstreeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603.
  4. To go on sale.
    • 2003,Billboard, page55:
      He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD thatstreeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
    • 2005 February 12, Deborah Evans Price, “Winans Ready To ‘Celebrate’ New Album After Illness”, inBillboard‎[2], volume117, number 7, page18:
      “Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD thatstreeted the same day as the CD.
  5. (Japanese Mormonism) Toproselytize in public.
    • 2000, Dow Glenn Ostlund,The Lost Tribes of Isuraeru: Belief Tales Among Mormon Missionaries in Japan:
      A person I metstreeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.
    • 2007, John Patrick Hoffmann,Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, Lexington Books,→ISBN, page94:
      Althoughstreeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.
    • 2010, Eugene Woodbury, chapter 9, inTokyo South, Peaks Island Press,→ISBN, page86:
      Theystreeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.

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Middle English

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Noun

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street

  1. Alternative form ofstrete
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