street
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
- 2.
A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
- 3.
(Canada, US, specifically)The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- 4.
Metonymic senses:
- 5.
(attributive)Living in the streets.
a street cat
a street urchin
- 6.
(slang, uncountable)Streetwise slang.
- 7.
(in plural, slang)(slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
- 8.
(figuratively)A great distance.
He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
- 9.
(slang)(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- 10.
(uncountable)(uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(slang)Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To build or equip with streets.
- 2.
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- 3.
(broadly)(sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
- 4.
To go on sale.
- 5.
(Japanese, Mormonism)(Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
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Nguồn gốc từ
Middle English strete, from strēt (street) from *strātu (street), an early borrowing from - (via) strāta (paved (road)), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (to stretch out, extend, spread). estrade stratum.