Other forms: avenues
An avenue is a broad street, often with trees planted along both sides. A tree-lined avenue, Fifth Avenue, an avenue of limes.
In British use it is often a residential road name with no particular width; in American cities avenues and streets run at right angles to each other and the pair is a grid system. An avenue of trees can also be the approach to a country house, with no road at all. The figurative sense is very common: an avenue is a possible way forward — explore every avenue, a new avenue of research.
1nounavenueA broad street, often lined with trees.
“The avenue runs straight for about a mile.”
2nounpossibleA possible way of doing something.
“That avenue was closed off within a week.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
avenue is a road, or a way forward.
French avenue is the past participle of avenir, to come to or approach — the same Latin venire that gives advent, event and convene. An avenue is the way something comes towards you, which is why the approach to a house was the first thing to bear the name.
Old French
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English, today
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Built from
French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō (“come to”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA