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noun (plural streets) |
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1. public road in town: a public road, especially in a town or city, usually lined with buildings
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2. buildings on street: the buildings that line a street
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3. part of road between sidewalks: the part of a road that lies between the sidewalks and is used by vehicles
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4. people located on street: the people who work or live on a street
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5. urban milieu: the modern urban environment as a public arena
  The word on the street is that Micky knows who did it and is out to get him.
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6. particular environment: the social context or world of a particular group of people
the view of the Republican street
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7. representative group of people: ordinary people considered collectively as representatives of the majority opinion of a particular group
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related to modern urban society: widely found or used in a modern urban environment or fashionable in modern urban culture, especially among young people or the underworld
Street language has worked its way into the mainstream language.
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| [ Old English strǣt, via W Germanic < late Latin strata "paved road" < Latin sternere "pave, throw down"] |
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on the street having no place to live
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on the streets working as a prostitute
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right up somebody's street exactly suitable or appropriate for somebody
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streets ahead (of somebody or something) U.K. much better in some way than somebody or something
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the man or person or woman in the street the average man or person or woman
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