avenue

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   They live on a quiet, tree-lined avenue.

2. 2
   noun

   A way of approaching or achieving something.

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

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”)).

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