Avenue

Quick meaning: Avenue is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

1. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
2. 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.
3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

Example Sentences

There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.

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.

As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.

Word Forms

• avenues

Synonyms for avenue

Depending on context, synonyms include drive, boulevard, av.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boulevard, street, lane, via, thoroughfare, pathway.

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