1. A thoroughfare (usually including pavements) that is lined with buildings
   "he lives on Nassau Street"; "they walked the streets of the small town"
    
2. The part of a thoroughfare between the pavements; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
   "be careful crossing the street"
    
3. People living or working on the same street
   "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"
    
4. The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
   "she tried to keep her children off the street"
    
5. A situation offering opportunities
   "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street"

Derived forms: streets

Type of: chance, environment, neighborhood [US], neighbourhood [Brit, Cdn], opportunity, thoroughfare

Part of: concrete jungle

Encyclopedia: Street, Peter