street

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A public way or thoroughfare in a city or town, usually with a sidewalk or sidewalks.
2. n. Such a public way considered apart from the sidewalks: Don't play in the street.
3. n. A public way or road along with the houses or buildings abutting it: lives on a quiet street.
4. n. The people living, working, or habitually gathering in or along a street: The whole street protested the new parking regulations.
5. n. A district, such as Wall Street in New York City, that is identified with a specific profession. Often used with the.
6. n. The streets of a city viewed as the scene of crime, poverty, or dereliction.
7. n. The common public viewed as a repository of public attitudes and understanding.
8. adj. Near or giving passage to a street: a street door.
9. adj. Taking place in the street: a street brawl; street crime.
10. adj. Living or making a living on the streets: street people; a street vendor.
11. adj. Performing on the street: street musicians; a street juggler.
12. adj. Crude; vulgar: street language; street humor.
13. adj. Appropriate for wear or use in public: street clothes.
14. idiom. on Without a job; idle.
15. idiom. on Without a home; homeless.
16. idiom. on Out of prison; at liberty.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A paved road; a highway.
2. n. A public way or road, whether paved or unpaved, in a village, town, or city, ordinarily including a sidewalk or sidewalks and a roadway, and having houses or town lots on one or both sides; a main way. in distinction from a lane or alley: as, a fashionable street; a street of shops. Abbreviated St., st. Compare road, 3. Strictly, the word excludes the houses, which are on the street; but in a very common use it includes the land and houses, which are then in the street: as, a house in High Street. In law, street sometimes includes as much of the surface, and as much of the space above and of the soil or depth beneath, as may be needed for the ordinary works which the local authorities may decide to execute on or in a street, including sidewalks.
3. n. The way for vehicles, between the curbs, as distinguished from the sidewalks: as, to walk in the street.
4. n. Hence, a path or passageway inclosed between continuous lines of objects; a track; a lane.
5. n. A path; a way.
6. n. The inhabitants of a street collectively.
7. n. Synonyms Road, etc. See way.

Wiktionary

1. n. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
2. n. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
3. n. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
4. n. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
5. n. Street talk or slang.
6. n. Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
2. n. the roadway of a street{1}, as distinguished from the sidewalk.
3. n. the inhabitants of a particular street.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
2. n. a situation offering opportunities
3. n. the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
4. n. people living or working on the same street
5. n. a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings