street1 nounstreet2 adjective
streetstreet1 /striːt/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINstreet
Origin:
Old English strætEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Our street was just a row of brick terraced houses.
- Pablo loved wandering through the streets of Barcelona.
- She had lived in the same street in London all her life.
- There were stores on both sides of the street.
- They live on Clay Street.
- Victoria can't walk down the street without someone recognizing her.
- Wall Street is a famous financial center in New York.
- We need more police on the streets.
- Across the street, on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields church, there was movement.
- Claudia, standing by the window, looking down at the street, knew the moment he stepped over the threshold.
- He's out there running the streets of Annapolis, just before dawn.
- He heaved his bulk round, but saw only the tightly wedged backs of the mob out in the street.
- He pointed to the side of the street.
- I imagine him marching-no, swanning-around the streets of his beloved Manchester as he talks to me.
- I went straight back to the street corner where I'd lost him and started the slow cruise.
- York, among many towns which have pedestrianised their centres, has paved many of its streets without adverse effect.
THESAURUStypes of road
a hard surface for cars, buses etc to drive on: · They’re planning to build a new road.· My address is 42, Station Road.
a road in a town, with houses or shops on each side: · She lives on our street.· We walked along the streets of the old town.· Oxford Street is one of Europe’s busiest shopping areas.· He was stopped by the police, driving the wrong way down a one-way street.· Turn left on Main Street (=the street in the middle of a town, where most of the shops are – used in American English).· These days the same shops are on every high street (=the street in the middle of a town, where most of the shops are – used in British English).
a road in a town, often with trees on each side: · the busy avenue in front of the cathedral· He lived on Park Avenue.
a wide road in a city or town – used especially in street names in the US, France etc. In the UK, streets are usually called avenue rather than boulevard: · the world-famous Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
a narrow road in the country: · a winding country lane
a short street which is closed at one end: · The house is situated in a quiet cul-de-sac in North Oxford.
especially British English, dirt road American English a narrow road in the country, usually without a hard surface: · The farm was down a bumpy track.
British English a road that goes around a town: · The airport is on the ring road.
British English a road that goes past a town, allowing traffic to avoid the centre: · The bypass would take heavy traffic out of the old city centre.
British English, divided highway American English a road with a barrier or strip of land in the middle that has lines of traffic travelling in each direction: · I waited until we were on the dual carriageway before I overtook him.
American English a very wide road in a city or between cities, on which cars can travel very fast without stopping: · Take the Hollywood Freeway (101) south, exit at Vine Street and drive east on Franklin Avenue.· Over on the side of the expressway, he saw an enormous sedan, up against a stone wall.
British English, highway American English a very wide road for travelling fast over long distances: · The speed limit on the motorway is 70 miles an hour.· the Pacific Coast Highway
American English a road for fast traffic that goes between states: · The accident happened on Interstate 84, about 10 miles east of Hartford.
a road that you pay to use: · The government is planning to introduce toll roads, in an effort to cut traffic congestion.
American English a large road for fast traffic that you pay to use: · He dropped her off at an entrance to the New Jersey Turnpike.
Longman Language Activatorto have no home also have nowhere to live · She was in a strange city, with no job and without anywhere to live.· He's staying at my house because he has nowhere to live right now.
having no home to live in, especially because you are very poor or have been forced to leave your old home: · The possibility that he might become homeless frightened him.· There is a system of shelters for homeless people.· The earthquake left thousands of people homeless.
informal to sleep outdoors in a city because you do not have anywhere to live: · As many as 250,000 children are homeless and on the streets.· He ran away from home and lived rough on the streets until the police helped him get into a hostel.
someone who plays music someone who plays a musical instrument very well or someone who does this as their job: · Ellen is one of our most talented young musicians.· The group is made up of local musicians who have been performing together for several years.
someone who sings or plays a musical instrument in order to entertain people: · Most performers feel nervous before they go on stage.· The festival provides an opportunity to hear some fine blues performers at reasonable prices.
: guitar/piano/trumpet etc player (=someone who plays a particular musical instrument) · Simpson is a talented singer and piano player.· She sang "I'll Fly Away," accompanied by two guitar players.
someone who plays a musical instrument while someone else sings or plays the main tune: · I'd be happy to sing, but I'll need an accompanist.· Pianist Tommy Flanagan is among the finest accompanists in jazz history.
someone who plays or sings the main part of a piece of music alone, or with a musical group supporting them: · There will be four soloists in tonight's performance.· Violin soloist Jessica Solano will perform Mozart's Concerto No. 4.
also busker British someone who plays music in a public place such as a street or railway station, so that people will give them money: · A street musician sat on the other side of the courtyard, banging a drum.· In the summer, buskers fill the town's streets and public squares.
ordinary people ordinary people are people who are not rich, famous, or powerful: ordinary people/folk: · Politicians don't care about ordinary people.· In the eighteenth century ordinary people had no access whatsoever to education.ordinary guy/man/woman etc: · In the film "Phenomenon", John Travolta plays an ordinary guy who becomes a genius overnight.
an average person is a typical example of a person: · The average family spends about £50 a week on food.· Foreign affairs do not usually interest the average voter.· There is concern that twenty years from now, the average American won't be able to afford to send his or her children to college.
a typical person who has ordinary opinions, likes the same things as most other people etc -- used especially by journalists: · The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.· This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
all the ordinary people in a society or country, especially those without special knowledge of a subject: · Very little official information is given to the general public.· She is a poet who is admired by other poets but not well-known to the general public.· Organizers of the President's funeral plan a large ceremony for the general public, and a small, private affair for his family.
the ordinary members of an organization, especially a political organization, when compared with its leaders: · The rank and file has lost confidence in the party leadership.· conflict between union leaders and the rank and file at an Alfa Romeo factory
the ordinary members at the bottom of a political or religious organization: · The decisions were taken by the party leadership without consulting the grass roots.
in a town a hard level surface made for cars and other vehicles to travel on: · They're building a new road around the city centre.· I live at 37 King's Road, Birmingham.cross the road: · Before crossing the road, stop, look, and listen.by the side/edge of the road: · Something was lying in the gutter by the side of the road.across/over the road (=on the other side of the road): · A widow lives in the house just across the road.along/down/up the road (=on the same road): · I went to the girls' school down the road.main road (=a large road where there is likely to be a lot of traffic): · They turned left at the gas station, into the busy main road.busy road (=a road where there is a lot of traffic): · It's amazing how many schools front busy roads.
a road in the main part of a town, with houses, shops, or offices and sometimes a path down each side for people to walk on: · There were stores on both sides of the street.· Wall Street is a famous financial center in New York.the streets of London/Paris/Istanbul etc: · Pablo loved wandering through the streets of Barcelona.in/on the streets: · We need more police on the streets.along/down/up the street: · Victoria can't walk down the street without someone recognizing her.live in a streetBritish /on a street American: · She had lived in the same street in London all her life.somebody's street (=the street where someone lives): · Our street was just a row of brick terraced houses.
British /main street American the main street in the middle of a town where most of the shops and offices are: · Our bank used to have a branch in every high street.· The small town of Whitehorse, Alaska consists of a half-mile long main street and a few scattered houses.· Albert Road is just off the High Street.
also back alley American a small street, away from the main streets of a town, where there are no large shops or important buildings: · They went exploring the dark, narrow back alleys of the old part of town.· It took us almost an hour to find her house in a narrow little back street.
a small quiet road away from any main roads: · If the car park's full you might find a space in one of the side streets.
a very narrow street or path between buildings in a town: · A narrow alley led up between the houses to the main street.· Women in white aprons gossiped in the alley between the apartment blocks.
a wide road often with trees along each side of it, especially one that is long and straight - often used in street names: · She lives in a large house on Acacia Avenue.· New York's 5th Avenue· The apartment is located on Jackson Boulevard.· New Delhi, with its elegant wide avenues and impressive government buildings, is a complete contrast with Old Delhi.· There are plans to replace the old highway with a braod tree-lined boulevard.
a street that is closed at one end so there is only one way in and out: · We got to know the neighbors on our cul-de-sac quite well.· Archie lives on a dead end street, so it is very quiet.· Honey, this is a dead end - you'll have to turn around.
a road with houses on it, especially a beautiful one - used in street names: · She was found dead at her home in Maple Drive.
British a road with houses along each side of it and with only one way in or out - used in street names: · Fran lives at 37 Appian Close.
British a street with a curved shape - used in street names: · Turn left into Badgerly Crescent.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road. He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station. Better street lighting might help to reduce crime. the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors. a long narrow road the narrow passage between the cottage and the house gangs of teenagers prowling the streets You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets. I knew he would never throw us out on the street (=make us leave our home when we have nowhere else to live). the shouts of street vendors He was found wandering the streets of New York.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=with a lot of traffic or people)· The house faces onto a busy street.
(=with a lot of people)· The streets get very crowded at weekends.
(=with very few people)· It was late and the streets were quiet.
(=with no people)· As he walked home, the street was deserted.
· an old city with quaint narrow streets
(=the biggest street in a town or village)· They drove slowly along the main street.
British English (=the main street with shops)· I bought this coat at a shop on the high street.
British English (=with a lot of shops)· This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.
(=with houses, not shops)· a quiet residential street
(=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
(=a small quiet street near the main street)· The restaurant is tucked away in a side street.
(=streets that turn in many directions)· We spent hours exploring the town’s winding streets.
(=with a surface made from round stones)· The cobbled streets were closed to cars.
verbs (=walk to the other side)· She crossed the street and walked into the bank.
street + NOUN (=a place where streets meet)· Youths were standing around on street corners.
· It was getting dark, and the street lamps were already on.
(=when people are attacked in the street)· Young men are most likely to be victims of street crime.
(=ordinary clothes, not a special uniform or costume)· She changed into her street clothes and left the theatre.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=one of the ordinary banks that most people use)· There's a lot of competition between the major high street banks.
(=living on the streets because they have no homes)· The organization aims to help street children in Latin America.
· Traffic was moving slowly along the city streets.
· There’s a newspaper shop on the street corner.
(=crimes such as robbery committed on the streets)· There will be new measures to tackle street crime.
It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road. He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station.· A crowd lined the street to catch a glimpse of the president.
(=in the streets of a city)· A street demonstration completely blocked the centre of the city.
· There were reports of street fights every night in the local newspaper.
(=which spends a lot of time on the streets)· He belonged to a notorious street gang which terrorized a Chicago suburb.
· Harry stopped under a street lamp.
Better street lighting might help to reduce crime.· There's a street map outside the town hall.
(=with a lot of different people selling things from tables, stalls etc in the street)
the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors. a long narrow road the narrow passage between the cottage and the house (=one held outside in a street)· Thousands flocked to the street party on Princess Street to celebrate New Year.
· There was a ban on street protests.
gangs of teenagers prowling the streets You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets. British English (=in shops in towns and cities)· Last month saw record high-street sales.
I knew he would never throw us out on the street (=make us leave our home when we have nowhere else to live). (=the amount that users will pay for illegal drugs)· Drugs with a street value of £1,600 were found in the car.
the shouts of street vendors He was found wandering the streets of New York.· We drove along the back streets.· Auguste, the bouncer he picked up in the back streets of Montreal, squeezes my windbreaker before letting me in.· And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.· The result is evident in the back streets and courtyards, which Atalla judiciously avoids with a foreign visitor.· Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.· I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.· I got Armstrong fired up and headed towards Hackney, using the back streets to avoid the worst of the rush hour.· And the kind of food and wine that would cost a few francs in a back street cafe.
· For the last couple of weeks, I had two posters in my windows, facing on to a fairly busy street.· Puffs of hardened car exhaust linger in the air on busy streets.· The smell of stewed eels streams from a steaming vat into the busy street.· She was in a narrow passage that crookedly connected two busy streets.· In this pouring rain on a busy street corner in Paris, I watch her face go soft with recognition.· The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.· It was busy on the street.
· Down in the housing scheme there was hardly a noise; the lamps fizzed quietly on the empty street.· He gazed down the empty street, and then across it to the marsh, and saw her.· Katherine gazed out at the empty Manhattan streets.· Ralph waved at the empty street awhile; even the gas fumes seemed to be evaporating before he was ready.· The bridges were empty and the streets silent.· The rain fell on empty streets.· Now she was rattling along the empty streets, the horse's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence.
· The Orb's appeal has spread silently to the high street.· The high street banks typically charge more than 18 per cent for an authorised overdraft.· Well away from the high street, the members of the City of London Law Society have slightly different concerns.· Many groups will make models of their village or their high street as it was in the past.· This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas.· Moneyfacts, the savings and loan information group, selects the following best buys from high street institutions.· Many are being refitted with the same smart new decor which will make them easier to spot on the high street.· Further reading 2 Practice development Introduction Most high street practices will undertake a certain amount of personal injury litigation.
· Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.· The last time that happened was in 1950, when Manvel's main street stood a foot deep in water.· Away from the main streets there was less damage.· Other new retail ventures include a new coffee bar and a 24-hour diner on Main and Fourth streets.· But new measures have been taken, and sweeping machines constantly ply the main streets collecting rubbish.· They followed the road into town and lost sight of the harbor as they came down the main street of shops.· He also owned a shop on the main street, selling hardware and tinned foods and some garden produce.· In the distance the several chains of lights indicating the main streets of the city were blurred, like tears.
· He led Lucien on to a narrow street lined by tiny, dark shops.· When Jodzis did not pull over, officers used a car as a roadblock on a narrow street.· Wing tips on each aircraft were removed and deposited in the cockpit for passage through the narrow streets.· Little had changed on the narrow streets of the Colonia Cucumacayan.· It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching.· City walls, narrow streets, open shutters, old women sitting outside in the early evening.· They went back to their house through the narrow streets, using a complicated route in case anyone was following them.· A natural harbour, set between two rocky headlands, forms a centre point from which narrow streets wind uphill.
· Here in the quiet side street everything remains polite and formal.· It was a quiet street, a block or two long.· He saw himself go inside, a fellow on a quiet street doing ordinary things, unafraid of being watched.· The once bustling riverside is now a quiet street, with many of the old buildings well preserved.· She walked slowly through the quiet streets, wondering if Dana and Roman would be cosily together in her flat.· Explosions were continuing in the paddy field, but they began a conversation as though on a quiet street.
NOUN· But the new decade also promises to revolutionise high street bank branches yet again.· Career development loans are also available from high street banks.· Even the lower rate makes the offerings from other high street banks look miserly.· Representatives from the world of high finance included chartered accountants and members of the major high street banks.· The Midland's financial weakness became a source of worry to the other high street banks.· Ten years ago, the high street banks were piling into investment banking.· Future Mortgages offers decent deals for people turned away by the high street banks and building societies.
· Driving away into the city streets, she'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life.· It envelopes various city streets that will be closed to traffic and even much of San Diego Bay.· It's a far cry from the ragged, skinny reality of city streets and the rural hinterland.· We were driving down another city street.· Miles of city streets are taken over by stalls offering tiny banknotes and articles of all kinds for sale.· The city streets were magic again, like they were when stoplights went dark after the quake.· They drove through the brightly lit city streets of Tsimshatsui, and it was like hurtling back to earth through the atmosphere.· This electoral scheme would not unclog city streets, struggling as always with more traffic than they were meant to handle.
· On a street corner in the bustling city centre Petrona Sanchez, a lottery saleswoman, is equally bewildered.· She says that most desirable street corners already have one or more of the two chains.· She was only dimly aware of the approach of the two boys who were walking swiftly from the street corner.· Today even 16-year-old boys on street corners look up to those who attend college.· On one street corner a dusky Moorish maiden, the next a Nordic blonde.· We wait in different places; the car park of an estate, a street corner in Archway.· He focused on older kids, because he saw too many of them on street corners getting into trouble.
· The 1989 Home Office report found that victims of burglary become more fearful of street crime as well.· Yet, viewing the Situation rationally, there are no old perpetrators of street crimes.· More police officers visibly going about their business is the most commonly advanced solution to street crime.· Citizens in inner-city areas are desperately worried and rightly so, about street crime.· Manchester police have an even simpler explanation for the current rise in street crime.· From there they go to Madrid and Barcelona, where they are already being blamed for an increase in street crime.· Apart from a few pickpockets in Rangoon, street crime does not exist.
· They asked: were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible?
· Yellow street lamps looked lurid in the greyness.· We end up, unexpectedly, in an alley outside the hotel, and Lip walks down toward a street lamp.· I said goodbye to her under a street lamp.· Mr Sammler, back walking the streets, which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps.· A street lamp shed light over the front part of it where the boardroom table stood.· Clean horizontal light from the street lamps entered our apartment.· The fine red-gold of his hair was like an angel's aureole against the street lamp.· The eerie grid of a city was spread out before him, lit by the chemical yellow of the street lamps.
· And what evil demon had prompted her to drive past a street market which all the gods knew she couldn't resist?· Converse crossed the square and found a street market in the shade of the church.· I drove through a street market, up and down hills, in and out of alleyways, through tarpaper shacks.· But I've stopped off at a street market on the way over for socks and shirts and thin garish underpants.· Most businesses and street markets opened normally.· She adored shopping for bargains and street markets and would have got on well with Cherry.· My house is right in the middle of Stratford-upon-Avon, and I can watch the street market from my window.
· One year missing from this litany of successful street protest is 1981.· Recent street protests have drawn only a few thousand demonstrators, fewer than in last December.· Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.
· Our house is just off the main shopping street of Tintagel, so there is always a lot of traffic going by.· In just ten seconds a peaceful shopping street is transformed.· The hotel is at the end of the main shopping street in a busy part of the village.· And second, it must be conceived and laid out in such a way as to support existing shops and shopping streets.· The hotel is situated in a busy shopping street close to many attractions including the Leidseplein, Vondelpark, and Rijksmuseum.· Situated in a quiet location, the hotel is about an eight minute walk from the resort's main shopping street.· At that time North Shields had a set of Victorian shopping streets.· They met, in fact, in the main shopping street, several minutes from his office.
· Brownlow went down in the lift, found his car in the side street and got in.· I was reminded of the quiet, old houses along the side streets of South Vermont.· From a side street, police in full riot-proof regalia emerged to split the crowd in two.· In Boston, the main roads were clear Monday, but some side streets were snow-filled and sloppy.· It was in a narrow side street and there were only a few people watching.· Julio points to a side street that opens on to the avenue directly across from them.· Here in the quiet side street everything remains polite and formal.· Police helicopters hovered and riot police were posted around the square and nearby side streets.
VERB· Marcelle entered his room seconds after she saw him cross the street from her window.· We crossed the street, I felt sick.· He crossed the street, carrying the book bag by its drawstrings, heading for the parked cop car.· Then he crossed the street in front of the National Gallery, glancing up at the massive edifice of the building in the process.· He was crossing the street and moving eastward.· Berthe Weill shrugged and crossed the street after him to the catcalls of the crowd.· He crossed the street with his new black sneakers springing into the alley.
· People crowded in from the streets, everybody danced and sang and drank and laughed.· He missed his son and always looked for him on crowded streets.· In the crowded streets of the capital it is hard to tell whether people are going about their business or simply wandering.· The fights in Seattle were broken up with pepper spray when as many as 4,000 people crowded into the streets.· Thousands of people crowded into the streets during the day, converging on the government offices to demonstrate support for Koffigoh.· It had been very crowded in the street because of the stalls.· Pissing into the air above a crowded street is just one of his exploits.· He hurried across the crowded street level with such haste and obvious alarm that shoppers turned to look after him.
· And, as he coasted towards Maple Drive through the suburb's still deserted streets, Henry thought about nice things.· He walks through deserted snow-lined streets and arrives at the graveyard to find Sue already kneeling beside the headstone commemorating their children.· The driver let us out on a deserted street, which he judged to be near the receiving center.· Shops were shut and offices closed, trams stood still and even rickshaws had disappeared from the deserted streets.
· Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets.· We bounced over the railroad tracks in Fresno and hit the wild streets of Fresno Mextown.· With its packages yet to hit the street, Clarify figures its technology will cop the leadership position.· But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets.· The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.· Miguel left, shivering when he hit the street.· When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.· Laid-off workers are hitting the streets.
· Jed could sense a question running like a breeze through the rows of people who lined the streets: Who's he?· Old men and women lined the dirt street and cheered as her wagon passed by.· The funeral procession started peacefully in Brooklyn, with thousands following the coffin and lining the streets.· Inside, food, game and beer booths line the plaza and streets.· In the city of Rome it is believed that some 40,000 insulae lined the streets and squares.· I looked down on the houses lining the steep streets of Saltville.· Citizens lined the main streets and applauded as the funeral procession passed by.
· She lives in a street near Russell Square.· Page has hit proverbial rock bottom and has become a walking skeleton living on the streets.· I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.· This undoubtedly will be at the expense of the people living along that street.· People who live on the streets lose self-esteem.· Sheffield lives across the street on a block where five of the six houses are occupied by family members.· He and I live in the same street.· Frank Morales, a neighborhood activist who lives across the street from the park, said Thursday at the dedication.
· We parked in a pleasant street, lined with trees and filled with detached and semi-detached suburban villas.· There were several pony carts parked along the street but only one motorized truck.· It was parked a couple of streets away.· Let my dad kidnap me, hue begged as he slowly passed a strange van parked down the street.· Kelly parked in a side street and walked.· A white waitress at a drive-in told the couple to park across the street, because they were black.· In the evening we drove into Chamonix and parked in the main street.· Don't go off to the sun and leave it parked in the street.
· Since then, excited activists have been roaming the streets, banging drums and chanting.· There was a lot of violence, gangs roaming the streets.· Cowpat stoves were everywhere, using the droppings of the cattle that roamed the streets as a mainstream fuel supply.· Industry, such as it was, almost stood still, and the jobless and underemployed roamed city streets.· Huge rats roamed the streets slaying then devouring their victims.· I bought one the first day I arrived and have been roaming the streets ever since looking for some one to play catch.· It might have been the stories about businessmen roaming the streets with half a million pounds in carrier bags.
· He ran out into the street, his soaked shoes splashing water over his trousers, muddying his coat.· He was staying with a guy he had run into on the street, the roommate of a former trick.· In the city centre these vehicles would run on the streets.· A shell exploded just in front of me, and just over a woman as she ran across the street.· Until recent times cobbles ran down the main street.· He ran across the side street, scrambled on to the pavement.· When I finished up at Mrs James's, I ran down the street and watched the sky.
· They can work and walk alone in the streets.· C., can you walk down the street and bump into a row of newspaper boxes half a block long?· That afternoon, between summer showers, we walked disconsolately through the streets.· But to really see Vienna, you have to walk its intriguing streets, alleys and courtyards.· They went home, walking the streets with their arms around each other.· People hummed the lambada as they walked down the streets.· Rachaela walked down the street and caught a bus at the corner.· You can walk down the street, raise your family, earn a living.
· However much she may enjoy such pursuits, there will be times when she would actually rather wander the streets unaccompanied.· They seldom wander past the streets and neighborhoods they know.· Male speaker I fear for Birmingham with this madman let loose, wandering around the streets frightening the children.· Charles wandered the streets in a daze.· Children as young as 2 or 3 wander the streets alone.· In the meantime, he wandered the streets, wheeling an oxygen tank he needed to treat his emphysema, Ewing said.· I'd wander down the high street, frittering away on whatever took my fancy.· Chickens and roosters wander the streets like they own the place.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the high street► the streets are paved with gold
1a public road in a city or town that has houses, shops etc on one or both sides: - Children were prohibited from smoking in the streets and the sale of tobacco to them became an offence.
- Fiats and mopeds clog the streets of Palermo, Ragusa, and the smaller cities.
- For them it was a career or back to the streets or the mines.
- Homeless patients receive medication to get well enough to return to the streets where they live until their next psychotic episode.
- Hundreds are injured as the streets of Berlin become a battlefield.
- In all my years as a producer I've never seen such scenes on the streets of Berlin.
- The Sandinistas were forced into a temporary retreat but returned later with reinforcements to do battle in the streets.
- There was a lot of violence, gangs roaming the streets.
- The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
- This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- He picked up the women in the street.
- Like most of the women in the street, Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Mrs Marriot was a woman up our street who used to sell things in her front room.
- So, if that sounds up your street, get your Peak Performance subscription in soon!
- This sort of thing should be right up your street.
- And streets ahead ... Bonnie brings a touch of magic to a Broadway favourite.
- As pure driving machines, there is no real comparison - the Mercedes is streets ahead.
- Sorry times, indeed, for Coventry, whose Midland rivals are streets ahead in strength in depth.
- The Scandinavian countries are already streets ahead in this area.
- A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.
- And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.
- I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
- Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.
- Now they left the main road for the quieter, dimmer back streets.
- People always honk at me for that so I try to take the back roads.
- That afternoon I drove nonstop over the back roads of Ames and Bern townships.
- The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
- By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
- But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets.
- Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets.
- Laid-off workers are hitting the streets.
- Meanwhile, his book, Black Coffee Blues, is due to hit the shops in mid-December.
- She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
- The newspaper has had $ 29 million in losses since it hit the streets on Jan. 10, 1994.
- The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
- When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- For the man in the street, sueing for libel can be an expensive business.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- The noise of thunder rolls across the city, pressing down and leaving the man in the street angered and on edge.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Parking is a problem but the parish council are working to get a proper car park to give off-street parking.
- Without the creation of new off-street parking areas, this problem is likely to intensify.
- But creative collaboration is a two-way street.
- But the link between diagnosis and treatment is a two-way street.
- A place where you can walk the streets, hear the bragging and feel the strut and the swagger.
- But police have assured residents there is no evidence to show they are at risk when walking the streets at night.
- Glasser talks of her as if, in walking out, she had gone on to walk the streets.
- He walked the streets, crawling from crib to crib.
- He thought by now he could walk the streets blindfolded and still find his way.
- I only have to walk the streets of Berlin to have it in my mind.
- Mr Sammler, back walking the streets, which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps.
- They went home, walking the streets with their arms around each other.
We moved to Center Street when I was young. She lives just a few streets away. I walked on further down the street. Someone just moved in across the street. a car parked on the other side of the street2the streets [plural] (also the street) the busy public parts of a city where there is a lot of activity, excitement, and crime, or where people without homes liveon the streets young people living on the streets She felt quite safe walking the streets after dark. Children as young as five are left to roam the streets (=walk around the streets) at night. street musicians (=ones who play on the street) She has written about the realities of street life (=living on the streets).3the man/woman in the street (also the man/woman on the street) the average person, who represents the general opinion about things: The man on the street assumes that all politicians are corrupt.4(right) up your street British English exactly right for you5streets ahead (of somebody/something) British English informal much better than someone or something else: James is streets ahead of the rest of the class at reading. → backstreet1, → be (living) on easy street at easy1(13), → one-way street at one-way(1), high street, two-way street, → walk the streets at walk1(8)COLLOCATIONSadjectivesbusy (=with a lot of traffic or people)· The house faces onto a busy street.crowded (=with a lot of people)· The streets get very crowded at weekends.quiet (=with very few people)· It was late and the streets were quiet.empty/deserted (=with no people)· As he walked home, the street was deserted.narrow· an old city with quaint narrow streetsthe main street (=the biggest street in a town or village)· They drove slowly along the main street.the high street British English (=the main street with shops)· I bought this coat at a shop on the high street.a shopping street British English (=with a lot of shops)· This is one of Europe’s most elegant shopping streets.a residential street (=with houses, not shops)· a quiet residential streeta one-way street (=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.a side/back street (=a small quiet street near the main street)· The restaurant is tucked away in a side street.winding streets (=streets that turn in many directions)· We spent hours exploring the town’s winding streets.cobbled streets (=with a surface made from round stones)· The cobbled streets were closed to cars.verbscross the street (=walk to the other side)· She crossed the street and walked into the bank.street + NOUNa street corner (=a place where streets meet)· Youths were standing around on street corners.a street light/lamp· It was getting dark, and the street lamps were already on.street crime/violence (=when people are attacked in the street)· Young men are most likely to be victims of street crime.street clothes (=ordinary clothes, not a special uniform or costume)· She changed into her street clothes and left the theatre.street1 nounstreet2 adjective
streetstreet2 adjective informal COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road. He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station. Better street lighting might help to reduce crime. the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors. a long narrow road the narrow passage between the cottage and the house gangs of teenagers prowling the streets You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets. I knew he would never throw us out on the street (=make us leave our home when we have nowhere else to live). the shouts of street vendors He was found wandering the streets of New York.
(=one of the ordinary banks that most people use)· There's a lot of competition between the major high street banks.
(=living on the streets because they have no homes)· The organization aims to help street children in Latin America.
· Traffic was moving slowly along the city streets.
· There’s a newspaper shop on the street corner.
(=crimes such as robbery committed on the streets)· There will be new measures to tackle street crime.
It’s easy to have an accident just crossing the road. He was hit by a car when he tried to cross over the road near Euston station.· A crowd lined the street to catch a glimpse of the president.
(=in the streets of a city)· A street demonstration completely blocked the centre of the city.
· There were reports of street fights every night in the local newspaper.
(=which spends a lot of time on the streets)· He belonged to a notorious street gang which terrorized a Chicago suburb.
· Harry stopped under a street lamp.
Better street lighting might help to reduce crime.· There's a street map outside the town hall.
(=with a lot of different people selling things from tables, stalls etc in the street)
the maze of narrow streets I was led through a maze of corridors. a long narrow road the narrow passage between the cottage and the house (=one held outside in a street)· Thousands flocked to the street party on Princess Street to celebrate New Year.
· There was a ban on street protests.
gangs of teenagers prowling the streets You shouldn’t let your children roam the streets. British English (=in shops in towns and cities)· Last month saw record high-street sales.
I knew he would never throw us out on the street (=make us leave our home when we have nowhere else to live). (=the amount that users will pay for illegal drugs)· Drugs with a street value of £1,600 were found in the car.
the shouts of street vendors He was found wandering the streets of New York.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the high street► the streets are paved with gold
relating to or similar to fashions, types of music, or attitudes that are popular with young people in cities: - A far better alternative was to walk the back roads and country lanes.
- And this was how many such agents lived, in rooms in the back streets of cities.
- I have found one must speak slowly to people who live in the back streets of London.
- Iain and Tommy drank together on the back streets of Pinner.
- Now they left the main road for the quieter, dimmer back streets.
- People always honk at me for that so I try to take the back roads.
- That afternoon I drove nonstop over the back roads of Ames and Bern townships.
- The back lane, roughly on the line of the original through road, is exactly that.
- By the time this Clinton-Dole thing is over, you and I could be living on Easy Street.
- But after the officer leaves, Michael grabs his sleeping bag and hits the streets.
- Equipped with such information, I decided it was time to hit the streets.
- Laid-off workers are hitting the streets.
- Meanwhile, his book, Black Coffee Blues, is due to hit the shops in mid-December.
- She told me to hit the streets with the canvas bag and start ringing doorbells the instant school was out next day.
- The newspaper has had $ 29 million in losses since it hit the streets on Jan. 10, 1994.
- The service is currently in beta testing and should hit the streets in the first quarter of next year.
- When the idea hit the streets, we at Guitarist were unanimous in wanting to throw our weight behind the project.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- For the man in the street, sueing for libel can be an expensive business.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- The noise of thunder rolls across the city, pressing down and leaving the man in the street angered and on edge.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Parking is a problem but the parish council are working to get a proper car park to give off-street parking.
- Without the creation of new off-street parking areas, this problem is likely to intensify.
- But creative collaboration is a two-way street.
- But the link between diagnosis and treatment is a two-way street.
- A place where you can walk the streets, hear the bragging and feel the strut and the swagger.
- But police have assured residents there is no evidence to show they are at risk when walking the streets at night.
- Glasser talks of her as if, in walking out, she had gone on to walk the streets.
- He walked the streets, crawling from crib to crib.
- He thought by now he could walk the streets blindfolded and still find his way.
- I only have to walk the streets of Berlin to have it in my mind.
- Mr Sammler, back walking the streets, which now were dark blue, a bluish glow from the street lamps.
- They went home, walking the streets with their arms around each other.
Her style is very street.