Synonyms of boulevard
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the city is celebrated for its broad, tree-lined boulevards
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On a recent January evening, throngs of Iranian protesters filed up wide boulevards spanning the northeastern city of Mashhad.
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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
Pahlavi was the name of a beautiful large boulevard in Tehran under the shah.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
In Westwood — the epicenter of the community, where the eponymous boulevard is lined by storefronts covered in Persian script — the widespread opposition to Iran’s hard-line theocracy is hard to miss.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
An ambitious $150 million plan is underway to revitalize a 10-block stretch of Broad Street in Center City, aiming to elevate the Avenue of the Arts into a destination comparable to Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Paris' Champs-Élysées and other iconic urban boulevards.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
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Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2026
Pahlavi was the name of a beautiful large boulevard in Tehran under the shah.
—Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
In Westwood — the epicenter of the community, where the eponymous boulevard is lined by storefronts covered in Persian script — the widespread opposition to Iran’s hard-line theocracy is hard to miss.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
An ambitious $150 million plan is underway to revitalize a 10-block stretch of Broad Street in Center City, aiming to elevate the Avenue of the Arts into a destination comparable to Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Paris' Champs-Élysées and other iconic urban boulevards.
—Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
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“Boulevard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boulevard. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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boulevard
noun
bou·le·vard
ˈbu̇l-ə-ˌvärd 
ˈbül-
: a wide avenue often having grass strips with trees along its center or sides
Etymology
from French boulevard "walkway lined with trees," derived from early Dutch bolwerc "bulwark, rampart"; so called because the earliest boulevards were at sites of razed fortifications — related to bulwark
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