street
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
How often you will meet it
Rank 463 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 44,555 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.021% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings they walked the streets of the small townhe 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 streetcooperation is a two-way street
- people living or working on the same street the whole street protested the absence of street lights
street in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Gloria's gaze dwelt on the house across the wide street.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Every one she knew would have gone somewhere, and Mortimer Street in August was a melancholy thing.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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For hours I've trudged the street in fruitless quest, Here is an inn, mayhap at last we'll rest.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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How he used to envy the members of the Elevens as they rolled arm-in-arm down the High Street!
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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She forgot, in her interest over Jimmy, to remember that the bay window looked directly on to the village street.
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls · L. T. Meade · Chapter 1