Street vs. Alley
Street and Alley Definitions
Street
Abbr. St. A public way or thoroughfare in a city or town, usually with a sidewalk or sidewalks.
Alley
A narrow street or passageway between or behind city buildings.
Street
Such a public way considered apart from the sidewalks
Don't play in the street.
Alley
A path between flower beds or trees in a garden or park.
Street
A public way or road along with the houses or buildings abutting it
Lives on a quiet street.
Alley
A straight narrow course or track, especially a bowling alley.
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Street
The people living, working, or habitually gathering in or along a street
The whole street protested the new parking regulations.
Alley
Either of the parallel lanes at the sides of a tennis court, which widen the inbounds area for doubles play.
Street
Street A district, such as Wall Street in New York City, that is identified with a specific profession. Often used with the.
Alley
A large playing marble, often used as the shooter.
Street
The streets of a city viewed as the scene of crime, poverty, or dereliction.
Alley
A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.
The parking lot to my friend's apartment building is in the alley.
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Street
The common public viewed as a repository of public attitudes and understanding.
Alley
(baseball) The area between the outfielders.
He hit one deep into the alley.
Street
Near or giving passage to a street
A street door.
Alley
(bowling) An establishment where bowling is played.
Street
Taking place in the street
A street brawl.
Street crime.
Alley
(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
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Street
Living or making a living on the streets
Street people.
A street vendor.
Alley
(tennis) The extra area between the sidelines or tramlines on a tennis court that is used for doubles matches.
Street
Performing on the street
Street musicians.
A street juggler.
Alley
A walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes.
Street
Crude; vulgar
Street language.
Street humor.
Alley
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
Street
Appropriate for wear or use in public
Street clothes.
Alley
(perspective drawing) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
Street
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
Alley
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
Street
A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
Alley
A glass marble or taw.
Street
The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
Alley
A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way.
I know each lane and every alley green.
Street
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
Alley
A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street.
Street
The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
Alley
A passageway between rows of pews in a church.
Street
An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
I got some pot cheap on the street.
The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
Alley
Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length.
Street
(finance) Wall Street.
Alley
The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office.
Street
(attributive) Living in the streets.
A street cat; a street urchin
Alley
A choice taw or marble.
Street
Streetwise slang.
Alley
A narrow street with walls on both sides
Street
(figuratively) A great distance.
He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
Alley
A lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins
Street
(poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
Street
A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
Street
(slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
Street
To build or equip with streets.
Street
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
Street
To heavily defeat.
Street
To go on sale.
Street
To proselytize in public.
Street
Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
He removed [the body of] Amasa from the street unto the field.
At home or through the high street passing.
His deserted mansion in Duke Street.
Street
The roadway of a street{1}, as distinguished from the sidewalk; as, children playing in the street.
Street
The inhabitants of a particular street; as, the whole street knew about their impending divorce.
Street
A thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings;
They walked the streets of the small town
He lives on Nassau Street
Street
The part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel;
Be careful crossing the street
Street
The streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction;
She tried to keep her children off the street
Street
A situation offering opportunities;
He worked both sides of the street
Cooperation is a two-way street
Street
People living or working on the same street;
The whole street protested the absence of street lights
