Question 1 · Quick check
street
CEFRA1
/stɹiːt/
noun
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A public road in a town or city.
- 02
noun
Extra detailA road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
Examples
I was just walking along the street when it happened.
I'm going to sit on the bench over there next to the street lamp.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- [skɹitˀ]
- [ʃkɹitˀ]
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsThe roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Metonymic senses:
More examples
In contextIt is easier to hit on people on the Internet than in the street.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
Quick test
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Origin
noun
Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese and Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedi...