street

street

W1S1 [stri:t] n

[: Old English; Origin: strAt]

1.) a public road in a city or town that has houses, shops etc on one or both sides

▪ We moved to Center Street when I was young.

▪ I walked on further down the street .

▪ Someone just moved in across the street .

▪ a car parked on the other side of the street

▪ Look both ways before you cross the street .

▪ There were soldiers marching down the main street .

▪ There's a branch of the store in almost every high street in Britain.

▪ We found a quiet bar in one of the side streets .

▪ a quiet residential street

▪ He was fined for driving the wrong way down a one-way street .

▪ a small historic town with narrow winding streets

▪ Two people were chatting on a street corner .

2.) the streets [plural] also the street

the busy public parts of a city where there is a lot of activity, excitement, and crime, or where people without homes live

on the streets

▪ young people living on the streets

▪ She felt quite safe walking the streets after dark.

▪ street musicians (=ones who play on the street)

3.) the man/woman in the street also the man/woman on the street

the average person, who represents the general opinion about things

▪ The man on the street assumes that all politicians are corrupt.

4.) (right) up your street

BrE exactly right for you

5.) streets ahead (of sb/sth)

BrE informal much better than someone or something else

▪ James is streets ahead of the rest of the class at reading.

→↑backstreet

→be (living) on easy street at ↑easy¹ (13)

→one-way street at ↑one-way

→↑high street

→↑two-way street

→walk the streets at ↑walk¹ (8)

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COLLOCATES for sense 1

along/up/down the street

across the street

on the other/opposite side of the street

cross the street

main street

high street British English (=the main street with shops in a village, town, or city)

shopping street British English (=a street with a lot of shops)

side/back street (=a street that is smaller than a main street)

busy/quiet street (=a street with a lot of activity or little activity)

crowded/deserted/empty street

one-way street (=a street where you can only drive in one direction)

narrow street

winding streets (=streets that turn in many directions)

street corner (=a place where streets meet)

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