a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
<noun.artifact> 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
<noun.artifact> 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
<noun.state> she tried to keep her children off the street
a situation offering opportunities
<noun.state> he worked both sides of the street cooperation is a two-way street
people living or working on the same street
<noun.group> the whole street protested the absence of street lights
Street \Street\ (str[=e]t), n. [OE. strete, AS. str[=ae]t, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p. p. of sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See {Strew}, and cf. {Stratum}, {Stray}, v. & a.] 1. Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field. --Coverdale.
At home or through the high street passing. --Milton.
Note: In an extended sense, street designates besides the roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border the thoroughfare.
His deserted mansion in Duke Street. --Macaulay.
2. the roadway of a street[1], as distinguished from the sidewalk; as, children playing in the street. [PJC]
3. the inhabitants of a particular street; as, the whole street knew about their impending divorce. [PJC]
{The street} (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also, figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street would not take the bonds.
{on the street}, (a) homeless. (b) unemployed. (a) not in prison, or released from prison; the murderer is still on the street.
{Street Arab}, {Street broker}, etc. See under {Arab}, {Broker}, etc.
{Street door}, a door which opens upon a street, or is nearest the street.
{street person}, a homeless person; a vagrant. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Syn: See {Way}.
In Lahore, Pakistan, hundreds of Pakistanis lined a major street, chanting slogans and rattling placards in opposition to the temple.
A French humanitarian group said Wednesday it was withdrawing part of its claim about the use of toxic gas during street protests in Soviet Georgia last month in which 19 people were killed.
In La Oroya, 95 miles northeast of Lima, Shining Path assassins shot and killed a mining labor leader Monday on a city street, police said.
Krenz said he had moved into the "quiet East Berlin street" after assuming the party leadership from hard-liner Erich Honecker on Oct. 18.
Police said they stopped the car because Papa and Rampersant matched the description of a holdup team that had stolen $10 and a ring from a woman on a Coney Island street six days earlier.
The hulk of an abandoned car sits on one corner of the playing area. Squat, dilapidated homes line one side of the street.
The pro-democracy tide now sweeping over one of the East bloc's last strongholds of hard-line communism also spread to provincial cities, which saw their first big street demonstrations in decades.
On Saturday, dissident sources said police surrounded the apartment building across the street from the government offices of the Russian republic, where the first meeting was held, but did not break it up.
"That's like you telling me the guy down the street is going to assemble the F-14 fighter.
A rubber hose carries water from the street to a courtyard, where residents squat on a common brick floor in the open to wash their clothes, cooking utensils and themselves.
In one incident, a grenade-like device exploded on the lawn of the Shapiro family home, a modest ranch-style house on a tree-lined street.
Strong thunderstorms passing through central Indiana caused street flooding in Crawfordsville.
They're high street general merchants,' Oberstein says.
The polls also have most Britons citing soccer hooliganism and street crime to back their belief that the country has become more violent.
Police said all they found was an old street sign.
Deputies blocked only northbound traffic on one street with their parked cars, leaving open a road from the east and west and another road southbound from Winston-Salem, Hodges and other witnesses said.
Twelve-page pink pamphlets are being handed out on street corners across the country, sounding frightening alarms in bold-face type about Ritalin, a prescription drug used for three decades to calm hyperactive children.
The man was told to take the money to a street corner in Boston's Mattapan section.
'This is Congress responding to the street.' Mr De Leon has been a sharp critic of the powerful Guatemalan security forces for their widespread abuse of human rights.
The skinheads shouted Nazi slogans during the match and later fought police in a street near the stadium.
Crowds would collect at times of comings and goings for government changes and over many years a man turned up every day to kneel in the street to pray for the prime minister.
Abortion supporters gathered across the street from the clinic in a counter-protest and solicited pledges for contributions based on the number of abortion opponents expected to be arrested.
The oil-on-canvas painting of a Paris street bedecked with flags commemorating the war dead was bought at Christie's auction house Tuesday by an anonymous American dealer for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, Calif.
A Chicago street gang member testified Saturday that Noah Robinson ordered a "hit" to kill a former employee, but the witness admitted he was promised money and leniency for cooperating with authorities.
On Wednesday, the rival rebel forces of Taylor and Prince Johnson waged bruising street battles in Monrovia with each other and with forces loyal to Doe, who remains holed up in his mansion in Monrovia.
Instead of holding down a job or going to school, it's been easier for them to knock some old lady on the street and take her Social Security check." At first, 19-year-old Jesse Roberson of Pontiac didn't think he could make it through the program.
But Anthony Galde is an unmenacing teen-age villain, the kind of street punk who would have been out-of-date in the original production of "West Side Story."
Two suspected Mafiosi were shot to death on the main street of a Palermo suburb, raising to 16 the number of people killed in gangland warfare in Sicily this week, police reported today.
A huge property group teetered on the brink of collapse. Retailers warned that there were few signs of life in the high street. Dividends were cut or paid uncovered.
A government decree said the goods would be offered through a network of shops, street markets and other authorised public vending points. 'People will be able to sell absolutely everything,' a commentator on state-run Radio Rebelde said.