Definitions for streets

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streets street

Spelling: [street]

IPA: /strit/

Streets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in streets (eersstt).

Definitions for streets

noun

1. a public thoroughfare, usually paved, in a village, town, or city, including the sidewalk or sidewalks.
2. such a thoroughfare together with adjacent buildings, lots, etc.:
3. the roadway of such a thoroughfare, as distinguished from the sidewalk:
4. a main way or thoroughfare, as distinguished from a lane, alley, or the like.
5. the inhabitants or frequenters of a street:
6. the Street, Informal. the section of a city associated with a given profession or trade, especially when concerned with business or finance, as Wall Street. the principal theater and entertainment district of any of a number of U.S. cities.

Idioms

1. on / in the street, without a home: without a job or occupation; idle. out of prison or police custody; at liberty.
2. up one's street, British. alley1 (def 7).

adjective

1. of, on, or adjoining a street:
2. taking place or appearing on the street:
3. coarse; crude; vulgar:
4. suitable for everyday wear:
5. retail:

Origin of streets

before 900; Middle English; Old English strēt, strǣt; cognate with Dutch straat, German Strasse; all ≪ Latin (via) strāta paved (road); see stratum

Examples for streets

At Thirty-second street he ran into Burman, with whom he had all but cornered wheat.

“I would not be seen in the street with that scarecrow,” murmured Giles.

And then by a street sign she saw that she was near the home of Philippe.

A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.

Sorely distressed, he walked back to his lodgings in Thirty-second street.

Mrs. Bines had never seen so many children as flooded this street.

The big slug happened to hit the suspect in the street, passing through his arm and then striking Police Officer Andrew Dossi.

The gunman then burst from the restaurant and fled down the street with the other man.

Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

When it became too crowded, they moved her into an open casket on the street.