Other forms: streets
A street is a town road with houses and shops along both sides. Cross the street.
A road connects places and a street is a place, which is the whole distinction. A street with trees is measurably cooler in summer and worth more per house.
1nounstreetA town road with houses and shops along both sides.
“The street was closed for a party once a year.”
street is a road.
Latin strāta meant a paved road, from sternō, to spread or lay down. Every street is named after the thing that was spread along it.
Middle English
strete
English, today
street
Built from
From Middle English strete. Middle English strete, from ang-ang strēt (“street”) from Proto-West Germanic strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Latin - (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). a doublet of estrade and stratum. The vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to in West Saxon and in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to and in Middle English, and in Early Modern English, and finally in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA