avenue

US: /ˈævəˌnu/
UK: /ˈævənjˌuː/


English Vietnamese dictionary


avenue /'ævinju:/
  • danh từ
    • đại lộ
    • con đường có trồng cây hai bên (đi vào một trang trại)
    • (nghĩa bóng) con đường đề bạt tới
      • the avenue to success: con đường đề bạt tới thành công
    • (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) đường phố lớn
    • (quân sự) con đường (để tiến hoặc rút)
      • avenue of approach: con đường để tiến đến gần
      • to cut off all avenues of retreat: cắt đứt mọi con đường rút quân

Advanced English dictionary


+ noun
1 (abbreviation Ave.) a street in a town or city: a hotel on Fifth Avenue + 120 Holland Park Avenue
2 (BrE) a wide straight road with trees on both sides, especially one leading to a big house: an avenue lined with plane trees
3 a choice or way of making progress towards sth: Several avenues are open to us. + We will explore every avenue until we find an answer. + He saw suicide as the only avenue left open to him.

Collocation dictionary


1 wide street

ADJ.

broad, wide | leafy, tree-lined

AVENUE + VERB

be lined with sth
an avenue lined with elms

PREP.

along, down, in, through, up an/the ~
strolling down a tree-lined avenue

2 way of doing/getting sth

ADJ.

possible, promising | fruitful

VERB + AVENUE

explore, pursue, try
We need to explore every possible avenue.
| exhaust
After two months of negotiations we had exhausted all avenues.
| open (up), provide

AVENUE + VERB

be open to sb
There was only one avenue open to him.

PREP.

~ for
to provide a new avenue for research
| ~ of
the two main avenues of enquiry
| ~ to
an avenue to success


Concise English dictionary


avenues'ævənjuː
noun
+a line of approach
+a wide street or thoroughfare