STREET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of street in English

(Definition of street from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of street from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of street from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of street

street
Performances take place in streets, garages, and restaurants - anywhere groups can find a space.
In autumn, figure 5 shows a steeper alignment of the results with the shops being clearly warmer than the arcades and the streets.
In autumn, the air movement is even better at the crossroad inside the market than in the exterior streets.
Builders often could not afford to pave streets and provide the other amenities needed if they were to build houses on suburban ®elds.
The press, streets, monuments, transportation, and countryside became a vast set on to which aperitif brands and their imagery could be projected.
The streets are of dirt, the electrical power is weak and there is no natural gas, sewer system, public lighting or garbage service.
Unsupervised young women on night-time streets could denote vice or vulnerability.
Generally felt that there was not much to do in the area except 'hang out' on the streets.
The performance is further shaped by the street's culture and history through the energy and the shared urban experience of its inhabitants.
Only a few side streets intersect the thoroughfares.
The streets are open before her, and every day she crosses the distance to the no-man'sland to meet the sniper.
The grid of streets and plots from which a city is composed, is like a net placed or thrown upon the ground.
Women who transgressed this spatial segregation were inevitably stigmatised, and young women were rarely seen in the streets past 15-16 years old.
One requires children to cross streets by holding the hand of an adult.
Houses were built along these streets as individual speculations, apparently without any regard to one another.
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Collocations with street

street

These are words often used in combination with street.

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busy street
The recent discoveries of medical science show that a thousand perils, unsuspected a generation ago, swarm in the atmosphere of a busy street.
cobbled street
The vehicles will have to pass through a busy market town with markets on both sides of an old cobbled street, with a steep, sharp bend at one end.
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cobblestone street
They were renovated in 1975 but many period features survive, including the rare cobblestone street surfaces.
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Translations of street

in Chinese (Traditional)
街,街道,大街…
in Chinese (Simplified)
街,街道,大街…
in Spanish
calle, calle [feminine, singular]…
in Portuguese
rua, rua [feminine]…
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रस्ता…
(家や建物が並ぶ)通り, 通(とお)り…
cadde, sokak, … caddesi/sokağı…
rue…
carrer…
straat…
வழக்கமாக ஒன்று அல்லது இருபுறமும் நெருக்கமாக இருக்கும் கட்டிடங்களைக் கொண்ட ஒரு நகரம் அல்லது நகரத்தில் உள்ள ஒரு சாலை…
सड़क, गली…
શેરી, ગલી…
gade, vej…
gata, -gatan…
jalan, Jln.…
die Straße…
gate [masculine-feminine], gate…
گلی…
вулиця…
улица…
వీధి…
شارِع…
রাস্তা, সড়ক, একটি শহর বা শহরের একটি রাস্তা যেখানে বিল্ডিং রয়েছে যা সাধারণত এক বা উভয় পাশে একসাথে থাকে…
ulice…
jalan, Jalan…
ถนน, ชื่อถนน…
đường phố, phố…
ulica…
거리…
via, strada…
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