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streets
 
Noun street has 5 senses
  1. street - a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street"
    --1 is a kind of     thoroughfare
    --1 has substances: pavement, paving
    --1 has particulars:
     alley, alleyway, back street; avenue, boulevard; cross street; local road, local street; main street, high street; mews; rue; side street; Fleet Street; Harley Street; Lombard Street; Whitehall; Strand; Downing Street; Pall Mall; Quai d'Orsay; Champs Elysees; Bowery; Broadway, Great White Way; Park Avenue, Park Ave.; Wall Street, Wall St.
  2. street - the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel; "be careful crossing the street"
    --2 is a kind of     thoroughfare
    --2 has particulars: one-way street; two-way street
  3. street - the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction; "she tried to keep her children off the street"
    --3 is a kind of     environment
    --3 is a part of concrete jungle
  4. street - a situation offering opportunities; "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street"
    --4 is a kind of     opportunity, chance
  5. street - people living or working on the same street; "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"
    --5 is a kind of     neighborhood, neighbourhood
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