street

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A public road in a town or city, usually with buildings along it.

   They walked down the busy street looking for a cafe.

2. 2
   noun

   The people who live or work on a particular street.

   The whole street came out to watch the parade.

Appears in

Simplified etymology

Street comes from Latin strata via, literally “paved way,” and originally denoted a paved road. It was already used in Anglo-Saxon times for a public road running between buildings, the basis of its modern sense.

From Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (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”). The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early…

Topics

External links

• Google Images
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Wiktionary