Definitions for avenue

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avenue av·e·nue

Spelling: [av-uh-nyoo, -noo]

IPA: /ˈæv əˌnyu, -ˌnu/

Avenue is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in avenue (aeenuv).

Definitions for avenue

noun

1. a wide street or main thoroughfare.
2. a means of access or attainment:
3. a way or means of entering into or approaching a place:
4. Chiefly British. a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building. a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.
5. a wide street or main thoroughfare.
6. a means of access or attainment:
7. a way or means of entering into or approaching a place:
8. Chiefly British. a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building. a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.

Origin of avenue

1590-1600; French, literally, approach, noun use of feminine past participle of avenir Latin advenīre to come to. See a-⁵, venue

Examples for avenue

I cannot decide which way to turn to reach Fifth avenue again.

James Ferguson, 29, a design student and paralegal, who lives on 89th and 1st avenue, is among them.

Three months before, the avenue would have meant nothing to Sidney.

And the bells chimed for victory at 1211 avenue of the Americas.

I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th avenue in lower Manhattan.

Ask your future husband if he knows a girl at 213 —— avenue.

Metamorphosis is running at Lincoln Center, 63rd Street and 9th avenue, until January 11, 2015.

The marchers began to stream out of the park, where they walked West on 110th and then hung a right on 7th avenue.

Quite suddenly Sidney knew who the girl at 213 —— avenue was.

On her first night on duty, a girl had been brought in from the avenue.

I cannot decide which way to turn to reach Fifth avenue again.

James Ferguson, 29, a design student and paralegal, who lives on 89th and 1st avenue, is among them.

Three months before, the avenue would have meant nothing to Sidney.

And the bells chimed for victory at 1211 avenue of the Americas.

I witnessed that tragedy a few blocks from where it occurred, standing motionless at 8th Street and 6th avenue in lower Manhattan.

Ask your future husband if he knows a girl at 213 —— avenue.

Metamorphosis is running at Lincoln Center, 63rd Street and 9th avenue, until January 11, 2015.

The marchers began to stream out of the park, where they walked West on 110th and then hung a right on 7th avenue.

Quite suddenly Sidney knew who the girl at 213 —— avenue was.

On her first night on duty, a girl had been brought in from the avenue.