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say it: street
street is a noun meaning "a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
“they walked the streets of the small town”
“he lives on Nassau Street”
the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
“be careful crossing the street”
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”
a situation offering opportunities
“he worked both sides of the street”
“cooperation is a two-way street”
colloquialism
people living or working on the same street
“the whole street protested the absence of street lights”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for street come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.