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Street
01
a public path for vehicles in a village, town, or city, usually with buildings, houses, etc. on its sides
Examples
He parked his car on the street and walked to the nearby café.
I crossed the street carefully at the pedestrian crosswalk.
02
the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
03
the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
04
people living or working on the same street
05
a situation offering opportunities
06
(in the plural) people in general, often as a source of information, gossip, or rumors
Examples
The streets say there's a party at Malik's place tonight.
I heard it from the streets; that shop's getting raided.
