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Definition of: street
(strēt) noun
1. A public way, with buildings on one or both sides, in a city, town, or village.
2. The highway on which buildings front; also, the roadway for vehicles, between sidewalks.
3. Colloq. The people living, habitually gathering, or doing business in a street.
—adjective
1. Working in the streets: a street musician; a street beggar.
2. Opening onto the street: a street door.
3. Performed or taking place on the street: street crime; street fair.
4. Habituated to the ways of life in the streets, especially in cities: street people. See synonyms under ROAD, WAY. [OE stræt <LL strata (via) paved (road)]
Street may appear as a combining form in hyphemes or as the first element in two–word phrases, with the following meanings:
1. Of or pertaining to a street or streets:
| street–cleaner | street–sprinkler |
| street–cleaning | street–sprinkling |
| street directory | street–sweeper |
| street layer | street–sweeping |
| street name | street–widening |
2. In the streets:
| street beggar | street music | street–pacing |
| street–bred | street musician | street peddler |
| street fight | street noise | street singer |
3. On or abutting a street:
| street corner | street entrance | street gate |
| street door | street floor | street lamp |
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