street

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ noun
(abbreviation St, st) a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides: The bank is just across the street. + to walk along / down / up the street + the town's narrow cobbled streets + 92nd Street + 10 Downing Street + He is used to being recognized in the street. + a street map / plan of York + street theatre / musicians + My office is at street level (= on the ground floor). + It's not safe to walk the streets at night. + It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city).
See also - BACKSTREET, HIGH STREET, SIDE STREET
Idioms: (out) on the streets / street (informal) without a home; outside, not in a house or other building: the problems of young people living on the streets + If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago.
on / walking the streets working as a prostitute
streets ahead (of sb/sth) (BrE, informal) much better or more advanced than sb/sth else: a country that is streets ahead in the control of environmental pollution + Beth is streets ahead of all the other students in her year.
the streets are paved with gold (saying) used to say that it seems easy to make money in a place
(right) up your street (especially BrE) (AmE usually (right) up your alley) (informal) very suitable for you because it is sth that you know a lot about or are very interested in: This job seems right up your street.
more at EASY adj., HIT v., MAN n.

Thesaurus dictionary

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n.

1 thoroughfare, way, road, roadway, high road, avenue, concourse, boulevard, lane, drive, terrace, circle, row, passage, alley, byway:

I don't know the name of the street where she lives.

2 up (someone's) Brit street or US alley. (someone's) cup of tea, in (someone's) bailiwick, suiting (someone) to a T:

Crossword puzzles are very much up Eugene's street.

Collocation dictionary

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ADJ.

broad, wide | narrow | bustling, busy, congested, crowded | pedestrianized, traffic-free

Most local people support the idea of traffic-free streets.

| deserted, desolate, empty, lonely, quiet | noisy | dark | bright, well-lit | dim, dimly-lit, gloomy | winding | steep | cobbled, paved | unpaved | clean | dusty, filthy, grubby | dangerous, mean, unsafe

He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas.

| leafy, tree-lined | one-way, two-way | dead-end | main, principal | back, side

a rundown house in the back streets of London a bar in a side street off Oxford Street

| city, village | right | wrong

You've taken the wrong street.

| shopping

the town's main shopping street

| residential, suburban, urban

VERB + STREET

go along/down/up, take, turn down/into/up

Take the second street on the right after the bridge. We turned down a dead-end street by mistake.

| cross | block, cordon off | patrol

The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder.

| roam, throng, walk

Gangs roamed the streets at night. Crowds thronged the streets.

| clear

Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics.

| widen

STREET + VERB

go, lead, run | bend, curve, turn | be lined with sth

streets lined with cafes

| be named sth, be named after sb/sth

Mozart is remembered by a street named after him.

STREET + NOUN

corner | map, plan | layout, network, pattern

the dense street pattern of the old town

| name, number, sign

Most street names were changed under the new regime. The shops had no street numbers on.

| lamp, light, lighting | parking | crime, gang | attack, battle, brawl, fight, fighting, robbery, violence

He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack. street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths

| demonstration, protest | party, procession | cleaner, sweeper | door

There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance.

| market | entertainer, entertainment, musician, performer, theatre | pedlar, seller, trader, vendor | hustler

Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.

| cred/credibility, culture, fashion, life, wisdom

His spell in prison gained him a lot of street cred. the street culture of working-class youth

| collection

The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.

| children, kids, urchins

a charity set up to house street children

| girls

(= prostitutes)

| value

drugs with a street value of £5 million

PREP.

across a/the ~

He could see her across the street.

| along a/the ~

They walked along the street.

| down a/the ~

A band was playing a little way down the street.

| in a/the ~

We live in Barker Street.

| (out) in a/the ~

A couple were arguing out in the street.

| into a/the ~

She stepped out into the street. He turned into a side street.

| off a/the ~

a club just off William Street a scheme to keep teenagers off the streets

| (out) on the ~s

Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest.

| through the ~s

He wandered through the streets of Calcutta.

| up a/the ~

There's a chemist's just up the street.

PHRASES

at/above/below street level, the end/top of the street, the other side of the street, the street on the left/right

Concise English dictionary

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streetsstrɪːt
noun
+a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
+the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
+the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
+a situation offering opportunities
+people living or working on the same street