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avenue - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | avenue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | street; path |
| Synonyms: | access, alley, approach, boulevard, channel, course, drive, entrance, entry, exit, outlet, passage, promenade, road, route, thoroughfare, way, parkway, pathway |
| Main Entry: | access |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admission, means of entry, approach |
| Synonyms: | admittance, approach, avenue, connection, contact, course, door, entrance, entree, entry, ingress, introduction, key, open door*, passage, path, road, route, way, in, open arms |
| Antonyms: | egress, outlet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aisle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passageway dividing something |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, avenue, clearing, corridor, course, egress, gangway, hallway, ingress, lane, opening, passage, path, walk, way |
| Notes: | the bride actually walks up the nave (from Latin navis 'ship') of a church, not one of the aisles (one of the two parts parallel to the nave) |
| Main Entry: | artery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | channel |
| Synonyms: | avenue, boulevard, canal, conduit, corridor, course, duct, highway, line, passage, road, route, sewer, thoroughfare, track, tube, way, pathway |
| Main Entry: | boulevard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | street, often lined with trees |
| Synonyms: | artery, avenue, drag, highway, passage, path, road, thoroughfare, track, way |
| Main Entry: | esplanade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | promenade |
| Synonyms: | avenue, path, walk, boardwalk, walkway |
| Main Entry: | highway |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heavily traveled, capacious road |
| Synonyms: | artery, avenue, boulevard, drag*, freeway, parking lot*, path, pike*, street, thoroughfare, toll road, track, turnpike, four-lane, interstate, parkway, roadway, skyway, super slab, superhighway |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | road |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, avenue, boulevard, drive, expressway, highway, passage, route, street, thoroughfare, turnpike, back street, byway, parkway, pathway, roadway, throughway, thruway |
| Main Entry: | path |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | course, way |
| Synonyms: | aisle, artery, avenue, beat, boulevard, direction, drag, footpath, groove, highway, lane, line, pass, passage, procedure, rail, road, route, rut, shortcut, street, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, walk, beaten path, byway, crosscut, pathway, roadway, walkway |
| Antonyms: | blockage |
| Main Entry: | road |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path upon which travel occurs |
| Synonyms: | alley, artery, asphalt, avenue, boulevard, concrete, course, crossroad, direction, drag*, drive, expressway, highway, lane, line, main drag*, parking lot*, passage, pavement, pike, route, street, subway, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turnpike, viaduct, way, back street, byway, cobblestone, dragway, parkway, pathway, roadway, throughway, thruway |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | route |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path over which someone or something travels |
| Synonyms: | avenue, beat, beeline, circuit, course, detour, digression, direction, divergence, itinerary, journey, line, meandering, passage, pavement, pike, plot, program, rambling, range, road, round, run, tack, track, trail, wandering, way, byway, rounds, short cut |
| Main Entry: | street |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | path upon which travel occurs |
| Synonyms: | artery, avenue, boulevard, court, dead end*, drag*, drive, highway, lane, passage, pavement, place, road, route, row, stroll, terrace, thoroughfare, track, trail, turf*, way, back alley, byway, parkway, roadway |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outlet |
| Synonyms: | aperture, avenue, chimney, drain, duct, exit, flue, hole, opening, orifice, pipe, split, spout, ventilator |
| Antonyms: | closure, door |
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, means of arriving |
| Synonyms: | access, accession, advance, advent, avenue, coming, entrance, gate, landing, nearing, passage, path, reaching, road, way, drawing near |
| Antonyms: | departure, distancing, leaving |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pathway, usually containing water |
| Synonyms: | approach, aqueduct, arroyo, artery, avenue, canal, canyon, carrier, chamber, chase, conduit, course, dig, ditch, duct, furrow, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, main, means, medium, pass, passage, pipe, route, runway, sewer, slit, sound, strait, trough, tube, tunnel, vein, watercourse, way, fluting, raceway, tideway |
| Main Entry: | concourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passageway |
| Synonyms: | avenue, boulevard, entrance, foyer, hall, highway, lobby, lounge, meeting place, path, road, street, rallying point |
| Main Entry: | entrance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a way into a place |
| Synonyms: | access, approach, archway, avenue, corridor, door, entry, entryway, gate, gateway, hall, hallway, ingress, inlet, lobby, opening, passage, passageway, path, porch, port, portal, portico, threshold, vestibule, way, doorway, staircase |
| Antonyms: | exit |
| Main Entry: | entry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way in to a place |
| Synonyms: | access, adit, approach, avenue, door, entrance, foyer, gate, hall, ingress, inlet, lobby, opening, passage, passageway, portal, threshold, vestibule, doorway, ingression |
| Antonyms: | egress, exit |
| Main Entry: | exit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way out of a place |
| Synonyms: | avenue, door, egress, fire escape, gate, hole, opening, outlet, vent, passage out |
| Antonyms: | entrance |
| Main Entry: | means |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way, method |
| Synonyms: | agency, agent, aid, apparatus, auspices, avenue, channel, course, dodge*, equipment, expedient, factor, fashion, gimmick*, instrument, instrumentality, intermediary, machinery, manner, measure, mechanism, medium, ministry, mode, modus operandi, organ, organization, paraphernalia, path, power, process, road, route, step, system, tactic, technique, trick, vehicle, ways and means*, instrumentation, stepping-stone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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