street

a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings

• “they walked the streets of the small town”
• “he lives on Nassau Street”

the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel

• “be careful crossing the 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”

a situation offering opportunities

• “he worked both sides of the street”
• “cooperation is a two-way street”

people living or working on the same street

• “the whole street protested the absence of street lights”