woonerf
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists.
Example Sentences
- "Other problems cited by Poulton include overall circulation problems, parking problems for service vans, and the difficulty strangers have finding their way around a woonerf."
- "He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: woonerf