Street | Mean of street in English Dictionary

/ˈstriːt/

• Noun
• a road in a city or town that has houses or other buildings on one or both sides
1. They live on a busy/residential street.
2. a deserted street
3. a dead-end/one-way street
4. You should look both ways before crossing the street.
5. Trash littered the streets.
6. The police car cruised up/down the street.
7. People don't feel safe walking the streets (of the city) at night. [=don't feel safe walking outside in the city at night]
8. our neighbor down/up the street [=our neighbor who lives farther down/up on our street]
9. They live across the street (from us). [=they live across from us on the other side of the street]
10. Many of our customers walk in off the street without having heard of us before.
11. Angry citizens took to the streets [=went outside on the streets] to protest the war.
12. He lost his job and eventually was living on the street(s). [=was homeless]
13. The store is at 84th Street and 35th Avenue.
14. My address is 156 Elm Street.
15. Word on the street is that the company is going out of business. [=people are saying that the company is going out of business]
• a poor part of a city where there is a lot of crime
1. He is from the streets.
2. the raw language of the streets
• much better than (other people or things)
1. She is streets ahead of the other students.

• suited to someone's tastes or abilities
1. The job is right up his street. [=the job suits him very well]
2. Working with animals is right up her street. [=(chiefly US) right up her alley]
• of or relating to streets
1. a street map
2. the store's street address
3. poor street lighting
4. I saw him standing on the street corner [=the area of the sidewalk where two streets meet] waiting for the bus.
5. Our apartment is at street level. [=our apartment is on the ground floor of the building]
• occurring, performing, working, or living on a street or sidewalk
1. street fighting/musicians/vendors
2. a street fair/demonstration
3. street people [=homeless people]
• of, relating to, or characteristic of a poor part of a city where there is a lot of crime
1. street drugs/crime/culture/gangs/slang