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I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.
Keith Coogan

Meaning of "avenue" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AVENUE

From French, from avenir to come to, from Latin advenīre, from venīre to come.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AVENUE

avenue  [ˈævɪˌnjuː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AVENUE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Avenue is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AVENUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of avenue in the English dictionary

The first definition of avenue in the dictionary is a broad street, often lined with trees. Other definition of avenue is a road, esp in a built-up area. Avenue is also a main approach road, as to a country house.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AVENUE


Agnew
ˈæɡnjuː
anew
əˈnjuː
continue
kənˈtɪnjuː
cornu
ˈkɔːnjuː
detinue
ˈdɛtɪˌnjuː
discontinue
ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjuː
enew
ɪˈnjuː
knew
njuː
menu
ˈmɛnjuː
nearly-new
ˌnɪəlɪˈnjuː
new
njuː
nu
njuː
parvenu
ˈpɑːvəˌnjuː
parvenue
ˈpɑːvəˌnjuː
renew
rɪˈnjuː
retinue
ˈrɛtɪˌnjuː
revenue
ˈrɛvɪˌnjuː
sub-menu
ˈsʌbmɛnjuː
tenue
təˈnjuː
venue
ˈvɛnjuː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AVENUE

avenaceous
avenge
avengeful
avenger
avengeress
avenging
avenir
avens
aventail
aventaile
Aventine
aventurin
aventurine
aver
average
average adjuster
average clause
average deviation
average speed
averagely

WORDS THAT END LIKE AVENUE

antique
Benue
blue
boutique
change of venue
due
hue
inconnue
ingenue
Inland Revenue
internal revenue
issue
league
Madison Avenue
out of the blue
politique
recontinue
rue
sales revenue
tax revenue

Synonyms and antonyms of avenue in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AVENUE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «avenue» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of avenue

Translation of «avenue» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AVENUE

Find out the translation of avenue to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of avenue from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «avenue» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

大街
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

avenida
570 millions of speakers

English

avenue
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एवेन्यू
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طَرِيق مُشَجَّر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

аллея
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

avenida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রশস্ত রাজপথ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

avenue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jalan raya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Allee
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大通り
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

대로
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Avenue
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đại lộ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அவென்யூ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अव्हेन्यू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cadde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

viale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

aleja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

проспект
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bulevard
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λεωφόρος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

laan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

aveny (n)
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

aveny
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of avenue

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AVENUE»

The term «avenue» is very widely used and occupies the 2.557 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AVENUE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «avenue» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «avenue» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about avenue

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10 QUOTES WITH «AVENUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word avenue.
1
Kurt Angle
Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.
2
Spencer Bachus
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
3
Spencer Bachus
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
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Alison Bechdel
And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.
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William Lacy Clay, Jr.
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.
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Keith Coogan
I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible... You will know soon enough if it's the right avenue for you.
7
Isaac D'Israeli
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Rebecca Harding Davis
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.
9
E. L. Doctorow
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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Stanislav Grof
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AVENUE»

Discover the use of avenue in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to avenue and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Telegraph Avenue
When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fourth-richest black man in America, announces plans to construct his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby neglected stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their ...
Michael Chabon, 2012
2
26 Fairmount Avenue
Tomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year.
Tomie dePaola, 2001
3
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess
Excessive, scandalous, comic, cautionary and horrifying, it chronicles the 60s dream gone-to-rot and the early life of a Hollywood Wild Child who was just brilliant at being bad.
Danny Sugerman, Daniel Sugerman, 1995
4
79 Park Avenue
Now he faces a choice: set aside his personal feelings for the sake of justice, or fall under Maryann's seductive spell and betray his life's work.The inspiration for the highly rated 1977 miniseries of the same name, "79 Park Avenue" tells ...
Harold Robbins, 2011
5
666 Park Avenue: A Novel
What if your mother-in-law turned out to be evil. . . literally?
Gabriella Pierce, 2011
6
Dropsie Avenue: The Neighborhood : a Graphic Novel
Portrays the metamorphosis of a South Bronx neighborhood as it undergoes a transformation from a rural to an urban environment, and experiences waves of new immigrants moving into and out of the area, from colonial times to the present.
Will Eisner, 2006
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1185 Park Avenue
By turns heartbreaking, funny, and mercilessly honest, Roiphe's story exposes the fault lines of misery that exploded in domestic battles on the home front, far overshadowing the war overseas. The locus of the story is 1185 Park Avenue.
Anne Roiphe, 1999
8
Grand Avenue
Set in a northern California landscape of tumbledown shacks and recycled barracks, this compelling sequence of interwoven stories about a Native American community is "one of the most important imaginative books of the year" (Michael Dorris ...
Greg Sarris, 1995
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue: A Comedy in Two Acts
Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax.
Neil Simon, 1972
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Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's
Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's Sam Wasson. screenwriter George Axelrod dupe the censors? How did Hubert de Givenchy manage to make mainstream the little black dress that seemed so suggestive? Finally—and perhaps most ...
Sam Wasson, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AVENUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term avenue is used in the context of the following news items.
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Teen's condition improves after falling off 4th-floor balcony on …
Teen's condition improves after falling off 4th-floor balcony on Othello Avenue Sunday morning. Osgoode Properties says it's co-operating with ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Police identify man slain on Montana Avenue, one of two weekend …
The more recent fatal shooting occurred just before 1:20 a.m. Sunday in the 100 block of Montana Avenue during an outdoor party, police said. «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
3
Telegraph Avenue business leadership propose plan to improve …
The organization, which focuses on improving the Telegraph Avenue economy, discussed the Public Realm Improvement Plan on June 29. «Daily Californian, Jul 15»
4
Part of Victorian Avenue and Silverada Closing for Roadwork
SPARKS, NV - The Regional Transportation Commission has major road projects lined up for the week of June 6, 2015. Victorian Avenue will ... «KOLO, Jul 15»
5
Updated: Early Morning Fire At 2126 Nostrand Avenue, Near …
Updated 3:10pm: A 68-year-old man who jumped from a third-floor window to escape a fire at 2126 Nostrand Avenue, by Flatbush Avenue, ... «Ditmas Park Corner, Jul 15»
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Car crashes into tree on Imola Avenue
A car ran off Imola Avenue west of Fourth Avenue on Saturday afternoon, striking a tree and injuring a passenger, the California Highway Patrol ... «Napa Valley Register, Jul 15»
7
Louisville rapper killed in Sunday night shooting
Family members said Michael Thomas Jr., 33, was shot and killed outside an apartment complex on Hazelwood Avenue. The rapper also went ... «WLKY Louisville, Jul 15»
8
Spring Avenue, Deerfoot and food trucks highlight council agenda
The Spring Avenue Southwest widening project liability, Deerfoot Estate subdivision agreement and a new food trucks ordinance highlight ... «The Decatur Daily, Jul 15»
9
Teen shot in leg on Martin Avenue
Chesapeake police say the 16-year-old victim was in front of his home near the 1400 block of Martin Avenue Saturday around 11:30 p.m. when ... «WAVY-TV, Jul 15»
10
Is Sky the Limit? Vote on College Avenue High-Rises Monday Night
State College developer Jeff Haas had a vision for his little corner of downtown, where he owns the building that houses Kildare's Irish Pub on ... «State College News, Jul 15»

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