street

street

/striːt/

along/down/up the street I was just walking along the street when it happened.

She lives just up the street here.

across the street The bank is just across the street.

in the street He is used to being recognized in the street.

Workers took to the streets in protest.

It's not safe to walk the streets at night.

It's a medieval town, with narrow cobbled streets.

a crowded/residential/quiet/deserted street

92nd Street

10 Downing Street

You can find these shops on every street corner.

The council promised better street lighting and cleaner streets.

a street map/plan of York

My office is at street level (= on the ground floor).

A couple were arguing out in the street.

Crowds thronged the streets.

Dead bodies littered the streets.

Gangs roamed the streets at night.

He could see her across the street.

He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas.

He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack.

He wandered through the streets of Calcutta.

He works at a small store on Main Street.

I was living on 10th Street off Hudson.

It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets.

Most local people support the idea of traffic-free streets.

Most street names were changed under the new regime.

Mozart is remembered by a street named after him.

Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics.

She parks her car in the street.

She stepped out into the street.

Spectators lined the streets.

Take the second street on the right after the bridge.

The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder.

The shops had no street numbers on.

The streets are teeming with traffic.

The streets were packed with people shopping.

There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance.

There's a chemist's just up the street.

They walked along the street.

Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest.

We live in Barker Street.

You've taken the wrong street.

a club just off William Street

a painting of a typical Parisian street scene

a plan to keep teenagers off the streets

people dealing drugs on the street

street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths

streets lined with cafes

the dense street pattern of the old town

the town's main shopping street

Do you have a street plan of the town?

I met him by chance in the street.

I spotted her on the other side of the street.

I walked up the street as far as the post office.

The streets are very busy at this time of year.

narrow winding streets

Many people just walk into the gallery off the street.

She looked out over the busy city streets.

a one-way street

a street sign

She crossed the street to avoid him.

It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city).

Collocations

adjective

verb + street

street + verb

street + noun

preposition

across a/​the street

along a/​the street

down a/​the street

phrases

above street level

at street level

below street level

The feeling I get from the street is that we have a good chance of winning this election.

The word on the street is that it's not going to happen.

Opinion on the street was divided.

Idioms

street

/striːt/

street vendors selling fruit, snacks and local handicrafts

street musicians

street kids

angry street protests/demonstrations

street sports such as skateboarding and skating

street newspapers sold by people who are homeless

street culture/dance/law

Street sport is informal and based on whatever people want to play.

He pleaded guilty to illegal street trading.

the street culture of working-class youth

The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.

people engaged in informal street selling

Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.

The show is about two rival street gangs in Manhattan.

Violent street crime has become an epidemic.

2 ​showing or connected with the attitude and way of life of fashionable young people in cities

London street style

You're not very street in those old trainers.

Word Origin

Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’.