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I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.
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Meaning of "street" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STREET

Old English strǣt, from Latin via strāta paved way ( strāta, from strātus, past participle of sternere to stretch out); compare Old Frisian strēte, Old High German strāza.
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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 STREET

street  [striːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STREET

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Street is a verb and can also act as 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.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb street in English.

WHAT DOES STREET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

street

Street

A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as concrete, cobblestone or brick. Portions may also be smoothed with asphalt, embedded with rails, or otherwise prepared to accommodate non-pedestrian traffic. Originally the word "street" simply meant a paved road. The word "street" is still sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for "road", for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a crucial modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction. Examples of streets include pedestrian streets, alleys, and city-centre streets too crowded for road vehicles to pass. Conversely, highways and motorways are types of roads, but few would refer to them as streets.

Definition of street in the English dictionary

The first definition of street in the dictionary is a public road that is usually lined with buildings, esp in a town. Other definition of street is the buildings lining a street. Street is also the part of the road between the pavements, used by vehicles.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO STREET

PRESENT

Present
I street
you street
he/she/it streets
we street
you street
they street
Present continuous
I am streeting
you are streeting
he/she/it is streeting
we are streeting
you are streeting
they are streeting
Present perfect
I have streeted
you have streeted
he/she/it has streeted
we have streeted
you have streeted
they have streeted
Present perfect continuous
I have been streeting
you have been streeting
he/she/it has been streeting
we have been streeting
you have been streeting
they have been streeting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I streeted
you streeted
he/she/it streeted
we streeted
you streeted
they streeted
Past continuous
I was streeting
you were streeting
he/she/it was streeting
we were streeting
you were streeting
they were streeting
Past perfect
I had streeted
you had streeted
he/she/it had streeted
we had streeted
you had streeted
they had streeted
Past perfect continuous
I had been streeting
you had been streeting
he/she/it had been streeting
we had been streeting
you had been streeting
they had been streeting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will street
you will street
he/she/it will street
we will street
you will street
they will street
Future continuous
I will be streeting
you will be streeting
he/she/it will be streeting
we will be streeting
you will be streeting
they will be streeting
Future perfect
I will have streeted
you will have streeted
he/she/it will have streeted
we will have streeted
you will have streeted
they will have streeted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been streeting
you will have been streeting
he/she/it will have been streeting
we will have been streeting
you will have been streeting
they will have been streeting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would street
you would street
he/she/it would street
we would street
you would street
they would street
Conditional continuous
I would be streeting
you would be streeting
he/she/it would be streeting
we would be streeting
you would be streeting
they would be streeting
Conditional perfect
I would have street
you would have street
he/she/it would have street
we would have street
you would have street
they would have street
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been streeting
you would have been streeting
he/she/it would have been streeting
we would have been streeting
you would have been streeting
they would have been streeting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you street
we let´s street
you street
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to street
Past participle
streeted
Present Participle
streeting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STREET


backstreet
ˈbækˌstriːt
Bradstreet
ˈbrædˌstriːt
bystreet
ˈbaɪˌstriːt
concrete
ˈkɒnkriːt
discreet
dɪˈskriːt
discrete
dɪsˈkriːt
Dutch-treat
ˈdʌtʃˌtriːt
entreat
ɪnˈtriːt
estreat
ɪˈstriːt
extreat
eksˈtriːt
greet
ɡriːt
high-street
ˈhaɪˌstriːt
intreat
ɪnˈtriːt
maltreat
mælˈtriːt
misentreat
ˌmɪsɪnˈtriːt
mistreat
ˌmɪsˈtriːt
overtreat
ˌəʊvəˈtriːt
pretreat
priːˈtriːt
retreat
rɪˈtriːt
treat
triːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STREET

street accident
street Arab
street child
street cleaner
street cred
street credibility
street crime
street cry
street directory
street door
street fighting
street furniture
street guide
street justice
street level
street lighting
street luge
street map
street market

WORDS THAT END LIKE STREET

back street
Bay Street
cross street
dead-end street
Downing Street
Easy Street
Fleet Street
High Street
Lombard Street
Main Street
man in the street
meet and greet
off-street
side street
the Arab street
the High Street
Threadneedle Street
through street
to be a one-way street
Wall Street
Wardour Street

Synonyms and antonyms of street in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STREET»

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

Translation of «street» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STREET

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calle
570 millions of speakers

English

street
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सड़क
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شارِع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

улица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rua
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রাস্তা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rue
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jalan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Straße
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

通り
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

거리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Werna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phố
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெரு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रस्ता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sokak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

via
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ulica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вулиця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

stradă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

οδός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

straat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

gata
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gate
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of street

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STREET»

The term «street» is very widely used and occupies the 723 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STREET» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «street» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «street» 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 street

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10 QUOTES WITH «STREET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word street.
1
Diane Arbus
You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.
2
Coco Austin
I look at couples in the street who are in their sixties and have been together for 40 years, and they're my idols. That's Ice and me for sure.
3
Roy Ayers
DJs and people in the street know what they like.
4
Charles Barkley
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
5
Katharine Lee Bates
A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, shrug and gesticulate and give back banter for banter as gayly as if it were all a holiday frolic.
6
Jim Beaver
After appearing for eight seasons as a beloved character on 'Supernatural,' it's not surprising that I get most of my recognition on the street from that, and it happens with some frequency. But I'm not a guy who gets recognized often.
7
Boris Becker
I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.
8
Joshua Bell
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
9
Billy Al Bengston
For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
10
Usain Bolt
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STREET»

Discover the use of street in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to street and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Miguel Street
This is an astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter; and an enchanting and exuberant tribute to V. S. Naipaul’s childhood home.
V. S. Naipaul, 2012
2
The Island on Bird Street
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Uri Orlev, 1992
3
The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Personal Finance
Covers banking services, credit, home finance, financial planning, investments, and taxes.
Kenneth M. Morris, Virginia B. Morris, 2004
4
Beating the Street
In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research.
Peter Lynch, 2012
5
Street Gangs Throughout the World
This book summarizes much of the research being conducted in many other countries where the street gang phenomenon is currently developing, which includes poverty, the retreat of the state, increasing income inequality, urbanization, ...
Herbert C. Covey, 2010
6
Images of the Street: Planning, Identity, and Control in ...
Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street.
Nicholas R. Fyfe, 1998
7
One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To ...
More than one million copies have been sold of this seminal book on investing in which legendary mutual-fund manager Peter Lynch explains the advantages that average investors have over professionals and how they can use these advantages to ...
Peter Lynch, 2012
8
Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers
When Jared Dillian joined Lehman Brothers in 2001, he fulfilled a life-long dream to make it on Wall Street—but he had no idea how close to the edge the job would take him.
Jared Dillian, 2011
9
City, Street and Citizen: The Measure of the Ordinary
This book offers to the reader an account of the lived realities of allegiance, participation and belonging from the base of a multi-ethnic street in south London. ‘City, Street and Citizen’ focuses on the question of whether local life ...
Suzanne Hall, 2012
10
Women Street Vendors in Nairobi, Kenya: A Situational and ...
Street vending represents a significant share of the urban informal economy.
Philomena Muiruri, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STREET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term street is used in the context of the following news items.
1
New rules target downtown street performers
An ordinance scheduled to be introduced next week aims to erect "performance zones" for dozens of street performers crowded under the Fremont Street ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
2
ArtsBeat | Sonia Manzano, Maria on 'Sesame Street,' to Retire After …
The neighborhood will have one less person when “Sesame Street” begins its 46th season this fall. Sonia Manzano, who has played Maria on the PBS show for ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
New Benefits Street series 'assessed' by Cleveland Police
Scenes from the new series of Benefits Street are to be assessed by police after footage of apparent drug misuse and criminal activity was shown in the first ... «BBC News, May 15»
4
Sony Developing a Female Driven Jump Street Film Plus a Men in …
By Steve WattsSony Pictures is developing not one but two Jump Street films: a female-driven spin-off, and a Men in Black crossover for what is essentially 23 ... «IGN, Apr 15»
5
Coronation Street fire scenes spark 999 calls
"At 9.25pm on Tuesday April 14 2015, we received reports of an explosion and a fireball seen on the set of Coronation Street on Warren Bruce Road in Trafford ... «The Independent, Apr 15»
6
Google Maps Pacman: company offers chance to play arcade …
A Google blog post emerged shortly after the feature, explaining that: "With local place information and Street View, it's easier than ever before to find where ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
7
Alleged Street Race Driver Charged With Murder in Fatal Los …
One of the alleged drivers involved in a fatal crash stemming from an illegal street race has been charged with murder. Henry Gevorgyan turned himself in to Los ... «ABC News, Mar 15»
8
Dramatic video shows deadly Chatsworth street racing crash
Video of a Chatsworth street racing crash this week shows a Ford Mustang speeding out of control just after the start of the race and veering into spectators as ... «Los Angeles Times, Feb 15»
9
Tributes paid to Coronation Street's Deirdre, Anne Kirkbride
The cast of Coronation Street have led tributes to actress Anne Kirkbride, who played one of the soap's best-loved characters Deirdre Barlow for 42 years. «BBC News, Jan 15»
10
Woman In Street Harassment Video: 'I Do Not Feel Safe Right Now'
The now-viral YouTube video "10 hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman" has attracted more than 27 million views, sparked conversations about street ... «NPR, Nov 14»

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