Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A wide street or thoroughfare.
- n. A broad roadway lined with trees.
- n. Chiefly British The drive leading from the main road up to a country house.
- n. A means of access or approach: new avenues of trade.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A passage; a way or an opening for entrance into a place; any opening or passage by which a thing is or may be introduced or approached.
- n. A roadway of approach to a country-house, particularly when straight, of considerable length, and shaded by a row of trees on each side; a drive in a private country-place; a walk in a garden or demain of some pretensions as to style or size.
- n. A street; properly, a wide street planted with trees and often with turfed spaces on either side, or a garden or shaded promenade in the middle: used in New York, Washington, etc., in the names of the longest and generally the widest streets, as Fifth or Pennsylvania Avenue, but in some American cities without special reference to the character of the street.
- n. Figuratively, means of access or attainment.
- n. In archaeology, a series of megalithic stones arranged in a row.
Wiktionary
- n. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees (Wikipedia).
- n. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- n. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- n. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
- n. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- n. A broad street.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a line of approach
- n. a wide street or thoroughfare
Etymologies
- From French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir ("approach"), from Latin advenire ("come to"), from ad ("to") + venire ("come"). (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, arrival, from feminine past participle of avenir, to approach, from Latin advenīre, to come to; see advent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The tree-lined main avenue is still called “Stalin Street” (an ethnic Georgian, Stalin was said to have also had Ossetian roots).”
“If crude oil really does run out or becomes prohibitively expensive to get, this avenue is available, and additional research and technological improvements need to be actively pursued.”
“The reason the last administration didn't pursue that avenue is because there is No Oil in Israel or the Gaza Strip!”
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“And the city recently changed the main avenue to one-way and added walking and biking paths, says Carrie Broussard, economic development manager for Mid-City Redevelopment Alliance.”
“While SBA loans have traditionally been reserved for riskier businesses, "this is the main avenue for small-business lending today," he says.”
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“Why should the House pass the bill with vague hopes of it being improved later, if this obvious avenue is available?”
“That they did not pursue this avenue is likely indicative of how barren of evidence this claim is.”
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“Apparently this is pretty common, and the main avenue, 20 lanes wide (9 de Julio Avenue) was empty (in a city of 3 million!) from 12-1 here.”
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“The main avenue of Guayabitos is lined with stores selling an endless array of sandals, bathing suits, hats, tee shirts and souvenirs.”
“Perhaps the most promising avenue is to design contracts and technologies that undercut the assumptions in the myopia story.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘avenue’.
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my dictionary
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mysterbey's Words
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go-come words
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murAM's Words
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Where the Streets Have a Name
In my life I've lived on an avenue, a drive, and uh, a park southwest. Maybe someday I can live on a mews.
street, avenue, lane, parkway, road, alley, drive, boulevard, mews, way, walk, court and 26 more...
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