streets

street[ stri:ts ]

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

    "they walked the streets of the small town"

  • 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"