word-vault/dist/data/cards/st/street.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "street",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a public road in a city or town that has houses and buildings on one side or both sides",
            "sensetop": "along/down/up the streetacross the streetin the street",
            "labels": "British EnglishBritish EnglishNorth American EnglishBritish EnglishNorth American English(British English)(North American English)North American English",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was just walking along the street when it happened.",
                    "contextForm": "along/down/up the street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She lives just up the street here."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bank is just across the street.",
                    "contextForm": "across the street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He is used to being recognized in the street.",
                    "contextForm": "in the street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Workers took to the streets in protest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's not safe to **walk the streets** at night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a medieval town, with narrow cobbled streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a crowded/residential/quiet/deserted street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "92nd Street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "10 Downing Street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can find these shops on every **street corner**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The council promised better **street lighting** and cleaner streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a street map/plan of York"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My office is **at street level** *(= on the ground floor)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A couple were arguing out in the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Crowds thronged the streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dead bodies littered the streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Gangs roamed the streets at night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He could see her across the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wandered through the streets of Calcutta."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He works at a small store on Main Street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was living on 10th Street off Hudson."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most local people support the idea of traffic-free streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most street names were changed under the new regime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Mozart is remembered by a street named after him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She parks her car in the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She stepped out into the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Spectators lined the streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Take the second street on the right after the bridge."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The shops had no street numbers on."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The streets are teeming with traffic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The streets were packed with people shopping."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a chemist's just up the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They walked along the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We live in Barker Street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You've taken the wrong street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a club just off William Street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a painting of a typical Parisian street scene"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a plan to keep teenagers off the streets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "people dealing drugs on the street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths"
                },
                {
                    "text": "streets lined with cafes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the dense street pattern of the old town"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the town's main shopping street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you have a street plan of the town?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I met him by chance in the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I spotted her on the other side of the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I walked up the street as far as the post office."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The streets are very busy at this time of year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "narrow winding streets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Many people just walk into the gallery off the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She looked out over the busy city streets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a one-way street"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a street sign"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She crossed the street to avoid him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was time to take the political struggle onto the streets (= by protesting in large groups in the streets of a city)."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by car or lorry", "Buildings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["broad", "wide", "narrow"],
                "verb + street": ["go along", "go down", "go up"],
                "street + verb": ["go", "lead", "run"],
                "street + noun": ["corner", "map", "plan"],
                "preposition": [
                    "across a/​the street",
                    "along a/​the street",
                    "down a/​the street"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "above street level",
                    "at street level",
                    "below street level"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the ideas and opinions of ordinary people, especially people who live in cities, which are considered important",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The feeling I get from the street is that we have a good chance of winning this election."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The **word on the street** is that it's not going to happen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Opinion on the street was divided."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an average or ordinary person, either male or female",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Politicians often don't understand the views of the man in the street."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What really matters to the man and woman in the street?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "enjoying a comfortable way of life with plenty of money",
            "labels": "(old-fashioned, informal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "without a home; outside, not in a house or other building",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the problems of young people living on the streets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was thrown onto the street."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "working as a prostitute",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "much better or more advanced than somebody/something else",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a country that is streets ahead in the control of environmental pollution"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Beth is streets ahead of all the other students in her year."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that it seems easy to make money in a place",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "very suitable for you because it is something that you know a lot about or are very interested in",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This job seems right up your street."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/striːt/",
                "audio": "st/street/street__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/striːt/",
                "audio": "st/street/street__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English strǣt, of West Germanic origin, from late Latin strāta (via) ‘paved (way)’, feminine past participle of sternere ‘lay down’."
}