- street
- nounADJECTIVE▪ broad, wide▪ narrow▪ bustling, busy, congested, crowded▪ pedestrian, pedestrianized (BrE)▪
It really irritates me when people ride bicycles in pedestrian streets.
▪ deserted, desolate, empty, lonely, quiet▪ noisy▪ dark, darkened▪ bright, well-lit▪ dim, dimly lit, gloomy▪ winding▪ steep▪ cobbled (esp. BrE), cobblestone (esp. AmE), paved▪ unpaved▪ clean▪ dirty, dusty, filthy, muddy▪ rainy▪ flooded▪ dangerous, mean, unsafe▪He grew up on the mean streets of one of the city's toughest areas.
▪ leafy (esp. BrE), tree-lined▪ one-way, two-way▪ dead-end (esp. AmE)▪ main, principal▪ back (usually backstreet), side▪a rundown house in the backstreets of Cairo
▪a bar in a side street off the Champs-Élysées
▪ city, village (esp. BrE)▪ right▪ wrong▪You've taken the wrong street.
▪ shopping (esp. BrE)▪the town's main shopping street
▪ high (BrE), main (AmE)▪Sales on the UK high street are in decline.
▪high-street retailers
▪He works at a small store on Main Street.
▪ downtown (AmE), residential, suburban, urbanVERB + STREET▪ go along (esp. BrE), go down, go up, take, turn down, turn into, turn up▪Take the second street on the right after the bridge.
▪We turned down a dead-end street by mistake.
▪ cross▪ block, block off, clog (esp. BrE), clog up (BrE)▪ cordon off (esp. BrE)▪ patrol▪The police have been patrolling the streets in this area since the murder.
▪ stroll, stroll down, stroll through▪ walk, walk down▪ cruise, prowl, roam, wander▪Gangs roamed the streets at night.
▪ crowd, fill, flood, line, pack, throng▪Spectators lined the streets.
▪ clear▪Police were told to clear the streets of drug dealers before the Olympics.
▪ litter▪Dead bodies littered the streets.
▪ widenSTREET + VERB▪ go, lead, run▪ bend, curve, turn▪ be lined with sth▪streets lined with cafes
▪ be packed with sb, teem with sth▪The streets were packed with people shopping.
▪The streets are teeming with traffic.
▪ be named sth, be named after sb/sth▪Mozart is remembered by a street named after him.
STREET + NOUN▪ corner▪ map, plan▪ layout, pattern▪the dense street pattern of the old town
▪ name, number, sign▪Most street names were changed under the new regime.
▪The houses had no street numbers on.
▪ lamp, light, lighting▪ crime, gang▪ punk, thug (both esp. AmE)▪ people (esp. AmE)▪ attack, battle, brawl, fight, fighting, robbery, violence▪He suffered extensive injuries in a street attack.
▪street fighting between police and stone-throwing youths
▪ demonstration, protest▪ fair, festival, party (esp. BrE), procession▪ cleaner (esp. BrE), sweeper▪ door (esp. BrE)▪There were photographers outside the street door so she used a back entrance.
▪ market▪ entertainer, entertainment, musician, performer, theatre/theater▪ dealer, pedlar/peddler, seller, trader (esp. BrE), vendor (esp. AmE)▪ hustler (esp. AmE)▪Tourists need to be wary of street hustlers near the station.
▪ selling (AmE), trading (BrE)▪people engaged in informal street selling
▪He pleaded guilty to illegal street trading.
▪ cred, credibility (both informal)▪His spell in prison gained him a lot of street cred.
▪ smarts (AmE, informal), wisdom▪ clothes (esp. AmE), culture, fashion, slang▪the street culture of working-class youth
▪ life▪ scene▪a painting of a typical Parisian street scene
▪ collection (BrE)▪The charity is having a street collection in aid of the local hospital.
▪ child, kid (informal), urchin▪a charity set up to house street children
▪ boy, girl▪ hustler (informal, esp. AmE), prostitute▪ price, value▪drugs with a street value of £5 million
PREPOSITION▪ across a/the street▪He could see her across the street.
▪ along a/the street▪They walked along the street.
▪ down a/the street, up a/the street▪A band was playing a little way down the street.
▪She lives just up the street here.
▪ in a/the street▪She parks her car in the street.
▪A couple were arguing out in the street.
▪We live in Barker Street. (BrE)
▪ into a/the street▪She stepped out into the street.
▪He turned into a side street. (BrE)
▪ off a/the street▪a club just off William Street
▪a plan to keep teenagers off the streets
▪ on a/the street▪people dealing drugs on the street
▪I was living on 10th Street off Hudson. (AmE)
▪ on the streets, out on the streets▪Thousands of people were out on the streets for the protest.
▪ onto a/the street▪She was thrown onto the street.
▪He turned onto a side street. (AmE)
▪ through the streets▪He wandered through the streets of Calcutta.
PHRASES▪ above street level, at street level, below street level▪ the end of the street, the top of the street▪ the other side of the street▪ the street on the left, the street on the right▪ hit the streets (= start to be available or seen in public)▪Her shocking autobiography is about to hit the streets.
▪ take to the streets▪Argentinians took to the streets in protest.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
