street
Plural
streets
1
a public path for vehicles in a village, town, or city, usually with buildings, houses, etc. on its sides
- He parked his car on the street and walked to the nearby café.
- I crossed the street carefully at the pedestrian crosswalk.
- The street was filled with colorful houses and blooming flowers.
- They walked down the busy street, lined with shops and restaurants.
- We ride our bikes along the bike lane on the main street.
2
the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
3
the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
4
people living or working on the same street
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a situation offering opportunities
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(in the plural) people in general, often as a source of information, gossip, or rumors
- The streets say there's a party at Malik's place tonight.
- I heard it from the streets; that shop's getting raided.
- They were talking to the streets to find out what really happened.
- Word on the streets is that the new crew is taking over.