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# street

«street» in Mova's school dictionary: **a road in a town or city with houses, shops or buildings…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (street, streets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A street is a road in a town or city with houses, shops or buildings on its sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#m1)

2) «Street» is part of many addresses: «24 High Street». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#m2)

3) «The streets» can mean the town outside, with its people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: houses on a street (both sides), house numbers (odd on one side, even on the other), lamps along a street at equal gaps, length of a street. In everyday life and safety: crossing the street, street names on a map, street lights, a street party. Phrases: «cross the street», «down the street», «across the street», «main street», «high street» (UK shops).

### examples

- There are 30 houses on the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x1)
- Lamps stand every 10 m along the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x2)
- The street is 500 m long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x3)
- How many houses on both sides? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x4)
- My friend lives across the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x5)
- Look both ways before you cross the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x6)
- Houses on one side of the street have odd numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x7)
- We had a street party with music and food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x8)
- They passed out into the street. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a street». We live «on» a street (US) or «in» a street (UK). Maths: a place or a length; with lamps or trees at equal gaps, items = gaps + 1. Trap: both sides of the street doubles the count. Safety: never play in the street.

### In the corpora

- [Living close to other people means sharing streets, walls, parking spaces and rules.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/0/)
- [Every street has its news: who parked where, whose dog barked, who has a new car.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/0/)
- [The confirmed part of a street story is what someone actually saw, like a car parked in a space on Tuesday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/15/)
- [A couple's marriage is private, and there may be children in the house who hear what the street says.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/41-our-street-who-parked-where-and-who-won-what/22/)
- [Families don't owe the street their news first; when a baby arrives, the kind reply is «congratulations».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «street» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/street/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.