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noun

ˈstrēt How to pronounce street (audio)
Definition of streetnext
as in road
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel going the wrong way on a one-way street

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adjective

as in grungy

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Recent Examples of street
Noun
Motorists, however, should stay especially alert in school zones, near crosswalks, and watch for children who enter the street or emerge from parked cars. — Andrew Adeolu, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026 In September 2011, Daniels, then a 17-year-old dropout and a member of the Bloods, was walking to the laundromat with his sister when rival gang members approached her — mistaking her for Daniels’ other sister, who was also caught up in the streets. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 23 Aug. 2026
Adjective
The name of the new super-street combination? — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025 An atmospheric, sub-street level wine cellar-vibe addition in the former Biondi Mills in Ostiense, said to be inspired by the 1950’s American soda companies. — Lana Bortolot, Forbes, 27 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for street
Recent Examples of Synonyms for street
  1. road
  2. grungy
  3. highway
  4. unkempt
  5. thoroughfare
  6. slovenly
  7. freeway
  8. untidy
Noun
  • This is a sophisticated, adaptive, three-chamber air suspension system that continuously adjusts to road topography and driving style.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Parts of the road broke off and some were evacuated from their homes.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of road
Adjective
  • Building to a poignant climax, writer-director Noah Segan’s elegant love letter to both New York and to bygone cinematic eras recalls both the 1970s, with its grungy urban antiheroes, and the 1990s, in its American indie ethos.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In recent appearances on the stage and the red carpet, the 26-year-old has been leaning into her grungy, indie-goth aesthetic.
    — Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of grungy
Noun
  • Jerusalem — The giant billboard on Tel Aviv’s main highway placed Turkey squarely at the center of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s election campaign.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • According to highway safety experts, many injuries in such crashes involve passengers being ejected from cars through moonroofs.
    — Marco Della Cava, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of highway
Adjective
  • Beneath Lamb’s unkempt appearance, crude manners, noxious flatulence, and stinging remarks lies one of the sharpest minds in MI5 and a man fiercely protective of his brood of misfits.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The Society was a sprawling campus on the Adyar River, its peaceful walking paths dotted with old buildings and gently unkempt trees.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of unkempt
Noun
  • Not bad for a story which begins with a waiter crossing a busy Los Angeles thoroughfare, and placing some Japanese-Peruvian fusion fare in a lift.
    — Nick Scott, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026
  • According to the county, road improvements are coming for some of the thoroughfares near Boca Lago.
    — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of thoroughfare
Adjective
  • And this is where the movie takes off from retro mythology to become its own slovenly mod thing.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
  • To Washington, a beard made a man look unkempt and slovenly, masking the higher emotions that civility required.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Definition of slovenly
Noun
  • The parking lot is west of Magnolia Avenue and just north of the interchange of the 91 and 5 freeways.
    — Nathaniel Percy, Oc Register, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Living in Southern California, my car is usually too loud for speakerphone calls on the freeway, but these completely solve that problem by directing crystal-clear audio right to my ears.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeway
Adjective
  • Bäck’s film prefers untidy personal drama to a tidy moral verdict.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
  • If the shells are bothering you or making your landscape look untidy, cleanup is relatively easy and may even benefit your garden.
    — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 16 July 2026
Definition of untidy

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“Street.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/street. Accessed 26 Aug. 2026.

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