avenue

noun

ˈa-və-ˌnü How to pronounce avenue (audio)
Definition of avenuenext
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 With news of its impending closure, consider this your excuse to squeeze in one last visit while cheering on runners just two avenues away on First Avenue. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2026 Police said that at the beginning of October, six different businesses on the avenue were vandalized and burgled in the span of a single week. — CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 Jones said advocates intend to continue pressing the issue through elections and other avenues. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026 The main issue is how often the avenue is closed to traffic for official visits, sometimes in addition to events such as football-club celebrations. — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for avenue
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenue
  1. street
  2. route
  3. thoroughfare
  4. path
  5. road
  6. approach
  7. highway
  8. freeway
Noun
  • The background street gets wildly warped from distortion, and anything outside of the center suffers some detail loss.
    — Kimberly Gedeon, PC Magazine, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Waves of water sloshed onto the streets of South Florida earlier this week, flooding cars and soaking feet.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of street
Noun
  • Beer says that the main transmission route of viruses of the Simbu serogroup are biting midges, which can rapidly spread infections, especially in the summer and autumn.
    — Sahas Mehra, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Along most of its route, the water dropped just one meter in elevation per kilometer.
    — Michele Chabin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of route
Noun
  • Major traffic disruptions are anticipated along key thoroughfares, including Northwest 87th Avenue and Northwest 36th Street.
    — Manuel Bojorquez, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
  • In the first nine months of 2026, the famed thoroughfare has welcomed 49 million people, impacted by the conflict in the Middle East and the social unrest in France.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare
Noun
  • Ben’s view Hoffman, who sometimes works from a small swivel chair in her children’s room, has followed a path from social video into the center of the swirling news cycles of true crime and celebrity.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • For Cascadia operators, the new Cross Traffic Assist is designed to detect vehicles crossing the truck's forward path at intersections.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of path
Noun
  • The road will be closed until further notice, county officials said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But the move left Angel City playing a home game on the road in an effort to avoid the road and play at home in the playoffs.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of road
Noun
  • That move placed the vessel within Russia’s Pacific submarine force, which operates across the country’s eastern maritime approaches.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Both approaches require costly infrastructure, but while exports could quickly fill government coffers, using gas to fuel industrialization has the potential to deliver a larger long-term payoff.
    — Alexis Akwagyiram, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of approach
Noun
  • Bundy was stopped by the highway patrol in Salt Lake City town in 1975 — leading to that 1976 conviction — and his vehicle was seized.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2026
  • The Utah Navajo Health System posted several active highway closures, with detours.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of highway
Noun
  • Fortunately for the script, other British and Hessian reënactors had arrived via freeway and the incredibly vast Orchard Beach parking lot.
    — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2026
  • But for what practical purpose do these features really serve, except for quickly accelerating onto a freeway?
    — Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of freeway

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“Avenue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenue. Accessed 4 Nov. 2026.

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