单词 | streetless |
释义 | streetlessadj. Of a town, village, etc.: having no streets. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > [adjective] > provided with streets > not streetless1855 1855 Lect. Amer. Instit. Instruction iv. 153 A clump of houses, approachable only on foot, nestled together in a tangled confusion of streetless, yardless, shadeless dwellings. 1870 S. S. Cox Search for Winter Sunbeams x. 173 The irregular, streetless, flat-roofed town. 1883 Sat. Rev. 28 Apr. 529 The main body of the old town [sc. Yarmouth] is absolutely streetless. 1959 Public Opinion Q. 23 161 The difficulties involved in applying systematic sampling procedures to streetless clusters of shacks. 2004 Sydney Morning Herald 26 July (First ed.) 1 Little bands of refugees..still appear each morning on the outskirts of Bahai, a streetless scattering of rubbish and mud houses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1855 |
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