avenue

B1 Topic:Places & Geography

US /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/ UK /ˈæv.əˌnjuː/ See IPA manual

Freq #4334

Meanings

1

noun
A wide street in a town or city, often lined with trees.

They live on a quiet, tree-lined avenue.
2

noun
A way of approaching or achieving something.

There are several avenues we can explore to solve this problem.

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1 noun · a wide street in a town or... boulevard drive

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Forms avenues

Derived forms avenuedavenuelikestravenue

Etymology

Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)).

avenue Old French adveniō Latin

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# avenue

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈæv.əˌnjuː/
**Frequency rank:** 4334

## Meanings
1. A wide street in a town or city, often lined with trees.
2. A way of approaching or achieving something.

## Examples
- They live on a quiet, tree-lined avenue.
- There are several avenues we can explore to solve this problem.

## Derived Forms
- avenued
- avenuelike
- stravenue

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: avenue
- Root: adveniō

## Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)).

## AI Etymology
Avenue is borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) plus veniō, venīre (“come”)). The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, avenue denotes a wide street in a town or city, often lined with trees and a way of approaching or achieving something. The same word family continues in derived forms such as avenued, avenuelike, and stravenue.

## Topics
- Places & Geography

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