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单词 streetless
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streetlessadj.

Brit. /ˈstriːtlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈstritlᵻs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: street n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < street n. + -less suffix.
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).
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