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A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
(slang) Street talk or slang.
* 2008 , Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2 , Focus Features
(figuratively) A great distance.
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
Illicit, contraband, especially of a drug
(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
* 2003 , Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin
A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
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* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
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, title= (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
* (John Locke)
* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
* Shakespeare
Street is a related term of community.
As a proper noun street
is .As a noun community is
a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization.street
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(wikipedia street)Alternative forms
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(en noun)- Walk down the street .
- I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
- Toaster is street for guns.
- He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
- England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street .
- I got some pot cheap on the street .
Usage notes
In the generical sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably with road, avenue, and other similar terms. In the English language, in its narrow usage street specifically means a paved route within a settlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while a road is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notably Manhattan, New York City) streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets. In the sense of "a road", the prepositions in and on have distinct meanings when used with street, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the road without looking", "I met her when walking on the road"). By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".Hyponyms
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* streetcar * streetcorner * streeted * streetfighter * streetlamp * streetlife * streetlight * streetscape * streetseller * streetwalker * streetward * streetwear * streetwise * streety * back street * civvy street * easy street * from the streets * high street * man on the street * one-way street * side street * street address * street art * street corner, * street cred, street credibility * street drug * street elbow * street food * street furniture * street hockey * street map * street market * street name * street racing * street smarts * street sweeper * street team * street urchin * take to the streets * two-way street * word on the street * Bay Street * Downing Street * Fleet Street * Harley Street * Lombard Street * Main Street * Queer Street * Threadneedle Street * Wall StreetAdjective
(en adjective)- Eric had to admit that she looked street —upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.
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(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
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- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .