Etimology
From Anglian Old English strēt (“street”) (cognate West Saxon form 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”). Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”), German Low German Straat (“street”), German Straße (“street”), Swedish stråt (“way, path”), Icelandic stræti (“street”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornýnai). More at strew. 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, /eː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep.
noun
street (plural streets)
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
(specifically, US) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
Metonymic senses:
(attributive) Living in the streets.
(uncountable, slang) Streetwise slang.
(figuratively) A great distance.
(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
(uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
Examples
Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.
I got some pot cheap on the street.
The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street.
Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million.
a street cat
a street urchin
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.
Related words
hyponyms
back street
civvy street
easy street
Farthing Street
high street
main street
mean streets
one-way street
side street
two-way street
adjective
street (comparative more street, superlative most street)
(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
Examples
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.
verb
street (third-person singular simple present streets, present participle streeting, simple past and past participle streeted)
To build or equip with streets.
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
(sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
To go on sale.
(Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
Examples
There are few places on this ſide the Alps better built, and ſo well Streeted as this, and none at all ſo well girt with Baſtions and Ramparts, which in ſome places are ſo ſpacious, that they uſually take the Air in Coaches upon the very Walls, which are beautified with divers rows of Trees and pleaſant Walks.
After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier.
There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.
Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.
Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.
But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.
Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul had streeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603.
He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
“Family & Friends 5” was recorded last May in Detroit at Greater Grace Temple. The event was also taped for a DVD that streeted the same day as the CD.
A person I met streeting in Osaka told me the above Kanji examples as well as many others that I have since forgot.
Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.
They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.