streets
plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
An inflected form of street · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,097 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 16,740 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.008% of every word in the library.
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
streets 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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Bands of drunken men paraded the streets, crying: "Bartja, the good son of Cyrus, is to be executed!"
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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In England they missed the alien tongues of Continental streets that reminded them of their own polyglot cities.
Actions and reactions · Rudyard Kipling · Chapter 1
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There's scarlet holly on the streets, and silver mistletoe; The surging, jeweled, ragged crowds forever come and go.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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Under the tall elms stretch the shady streets, alive eternally with the ever-new youth of ever-coming hundreds of boys.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The canals flow through the towns, too, and make water streets, where boats go up and down as carriages go here.
The Dutch Twins · Lucy Fitch Perkins · Chapter 1