1
as in street
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel
a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues
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2
as in route
an established course for traveling from one place to another
the two main avenues available to those joining in the California gold rush were the trail across the Southwest desert or the hazard-filled loop around Central and South America
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Recent Examples of avenue
Basketball offers a financial avenue to keep his stable stocked.
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2025
Online dating sites provide an avenue for widows and widowers to meet eligible people of both sexes.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
And then, the pandemic, which saw the film and television industry hit a standstill and left Amurri, a longtime actress and the daughter of Susan Sarandon, looking for new avenues of opportunity.
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
In 2022, more than 2,000 South Asian women volunteered to deliver cricket sessions via the ECB and Sport England’s Dream Big programme, part of a wider effort to open avenues for diverse communities at grassroots level.
—Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 12 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for avenue
Troy Renck, Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2025
Online dating sites provide an avenue for widows and widowers to meet eligible people of both sexes.
—Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2025
And then, the pandemic, which saw the film and television industry hit a standstill and left Amurri, a longtime actress and the daughter of Susan Sarandon, looking for new avenues of opportunity.
—Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
In 2022, more than 2,000 South Asian women volunteered to deliver cricket sessions via the ECB and Sport England’s Dream Big programme, part of a wider effort to open avenues for diverse communities at grassroots level.
—Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 12 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenue
Noun
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The various city or state or MTA (or combined) intervention efforts have been doing a very commendable job of finding our unfortunate neighbors on the streets or the subways who are acting in ways that are dangerous to themselves or others.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
18 Aug. 2025
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The most clever and engaging street signs are posted on Instagram, TikTok, and Yelp, significantly expanding reach at no extra cost.—
Michelle Greenwald,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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For the the Lynx system replaced by Scout vans, buses will stop running routes on Jan. 10.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Aug. 2025
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Go the safer route with easy heatless curlers like this affordable set from Kitsch.—
Jackie Cucco,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Aug. 2025
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The proposal would not only include metered parking along Bardstown and Baxter, but also several side streets off the thoroughfare.—
Keely Doll,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
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In New York City, heavy rains halted traffic along a major east-west thoroughfare in Queens, east of Manhattan.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
31 July 2025
Noun
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Tel controls the ball into Johnson’s path, who sweeps the ball out wide towards Son, who is free on the left wing.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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Gaza lives and traces for the rest of us paths to survival.—
Nima Hasan
August 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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And because of the powertrain’s development, the engineers on the Formula E team can now feed data back to the road car programme in Nissan’s Japan headquarters.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The powerful currents of flash floods can carry drivers off the road.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Europeans clearly had coordinated their approach and were speaking with one message if in eight different voices.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
18 Aug. 2025
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Many of these shows, following the lead of Serial, were true crime, while others, like Slow Burn, took a similar investigative approach to politics and history.—
Eric Benson,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug. 2025
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Police found some helpful clues in a heap of trash that was tossed into the last bit of forest off of the highway between Antwerp and Brussels.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
8 Aug. 2025
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Neither person in the vehicle was injured, and the eastbound lane of the highway was closed for over an hour.—
Sam Gillette,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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This weekend in metro Phoenix, drivers should plan for two ramp closures and one street closure associated with Valley freeway improvement projects, the Arizona Department of Transportation said.—
DAILY BRIEFING,
AZCentral.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Authorities are expecting heavy traffic along the detour route due to the freeway closure.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Avenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenue. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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