Definition/Meaning of street

• English - Noun: street ( plural streets ) A paved part of road , usually in a village or a town . Walk down the street . A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings . I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue . 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…
• English - Adjective: street ( comparative more street , superlative most street ) ( slang ) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends . 2003 , Mercedes Lackey , Rosemary Edghill, James P . Baen, Mad Maudlin 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 .
• English - Alternative forms: streat , streate ( obsolete )
• English - Etymology: From Middle English streete , strete , stret , strate , from Old English strǣt ( “ a road , a town-road, a street , a paved road , high road ” ), from Proto-Germanic *strātō ( “ street ” ), an early borrowing from Late Latin ( via ) strāta ( “ paved (road) ” ), from strātus , past participle of sternō ( “ stretch out , spread , bestrew with , cover , pave ” ), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (…
• English - Pronunciation: enPR: strēt , IPA (key) : /stɹiːt/ , Philadelphian English IPA (key) : /ʃtʃri:t/ Rhymes: -iːt