| Main Entry: | street |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path upon which travel occurs |
Synonyms: |
artery, avenue, back alley, boulevard, byway, court, dead end, drag*, drive, highway, lane, parkway, passage, pavement, place, road, roadway, route, row, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turf*, way |
| Notes: | street comes from Latin strata 'something laid'; road is a general term, whereas street is narrower in sense and chiefly urban in application - a street typically has buildings on either side and is paved |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of residence or business where one can be contacted |
Synonyms: |
abode, box number, direction, domicile, dwelling, headquarters, home, house, living quarters, location, lodging, number, place of business, place of residence, street, whereabouts, zip code |
| Main Entry: | colloquial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | particular, familiar to an area, informal |
Synonyms: |
chatty, common, conversational, demotic, dialectal, everyday, idiomatic, jive, popular, street*, vernacular |
Antonyms: |
correct, formal, standard, stilted |
| Main Entry: | concourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passageway |
Synonyms: |
avenue, boulevard, entrance, foyer, hall, highway, lobby, lounge, meeting place, path, rallying point, road, street |
| Main Entry: | court |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yard, garden of building |
Synonyms: |
cloister, close, compass, courtyard, curtilage, enclosure, forum, patio, piazza, plaza, quad, quadrangle, square, street |
| Main Entry: | exchange |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where stocks are bought, sold |
Synonyms: |
Wall Street, curb, market, net, network, over the counter, stock exchange, store, the Big Board, the Street |
| Main Entry: | highway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavily traveled, capacious road |
Synonyms: |
artery, avenue, boulevard, drag*, four-lane, freeway, interstate, parking lot, parkway, path, pike, roadway, skyway, street, super slab, superhighway, thoroughfare, toll road, track, turnpike |
| Notes: | a highway is a main road; an expressway is a multilane highway; freeway, parkway, turnpike are types of expressways |
| Main Entry: | lane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | road |
Synonyms: |
alley, artery, avenue, back street, boulevard, byway, drive, expressway, highway, parkway, passage, pathway, roadway, route, street, thoroughfare, throughway, thruway, turnpike |
| Main Entry: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | row, succession; course |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, array, axis, band, block, border, catalogue, channel, column, concatenation, crack, direction, division, drain, echelon, file, fissure, formation, furrow, groove, group, lane, length, list, magazine, mark, order, path, progression, queue, rank, ridge, road, route, row, scar, seam, sequence, series, street, string, thread, tier, track, train, trajectory, trench, way |
| Main Entry: | neighborhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community, surroundings |
Synonyms: |
adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |