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avenue

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Synonyms and Antonyms of avenue

1 a passage cleared for public vehicular travel

a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues

Synonyms of avenue

arterial, artery, boulevard, drag, drive, expressway, freeway, high road, highway, pass, pike, road, roadway, route, row, street, thoroughfare, thruway, trace, turnpike, way

Words Related to avenue

autoroute, interstate, superhighway

beltway, bypass, parkway

corniche, switchback

backstreet, branch, bystreet, byway, crossroad, secondary road, shunpike, side road, side street

alley, alleyway

circle, lane, place

cul-de-sac, dead end

2 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.

Synonyms of avenue

approach, passage, path, route, way

Words Related to avenue

bypath, byway, lane

artery, boulevard, bypass, drive, expressway, freeway, high road, highway, pass, passageway, pike, road, roadway, row, street, thoroughfare, turnpike

trace, track, trail

channel, gat, watercourse, waterway

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