Synonyms for street
- noun
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
Related words
- Word family
- streetlike street-smart
- Phrases
- street sweeper street child back street street urchin high street street organ street hockey living street
- Is a kind of
- road way
Forms
- Plural
- streets → roads, ways, boulevards, thoroughfares…
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A street is in some center of habitation, as a city, town, or village; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country road becomes the village street. A thoroughfare is a way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a thoroughfare.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- highway How can we reduce the number of highway accidents?
- avenue The main avenue had a gas station and mosque on it.
- boulevard Is this the right bus for Pacific Boulevard?
- thoroughfare No thoroughfare to the beach.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| street | rising | |
| highway | falling | |
| avenue | steady | |
| boulevard | rising | |
| thoroughfare | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- way1
- 4 letters
- road1
- 5 letters
- drive1
- 6 letters
- avenue3
- 7 letters
- highway2
- 9 letters
- boulevard3
- 12 letters
- thoroughfare3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avenue3 = 3 syllables).