avenue
/ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.43 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
noun
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.
noun
The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
noun
A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
Example Sentences
- "Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Avenue ."
- "Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south."
- "The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west; numbered streets run north–south."
- "[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it."
- "They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall."
- "There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: avenue, adveniō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/
- British English: /ˈæv.əˌnjuː/