STREETED

Etymology

Adjective

streeted (not comparable)

(especially in combination) Having (a specified form of) streets

Verb

streeted

simple past tense and past participle of street

Anagrams

• detester, resetted, retested, settered

Source: Wiktionary


STREET

Street, n. Etym: [OE. strete, AS. str, fr. L. strata (sc. via) a paved way, properly fem. p.p. of sternere, stratum, to spread; akin to E. strew. See Strew, and cf. Stratum, Stray, v. & a.]

Definition: 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. Coverdale. At home or through the high street passing. Milton.

Note: In an extended sense, street designates besides the roadway, the walks, houses, shops, etc., which border the thoroughfare. His deserted mansion in Duke Street. Macaulay. The street (Broker's Cant), that thoroughfare of a city where the leading bankers and brokers do business; also, figuratively, those who do business there; as, the street would not take the bonds.

– Street Arab, Street broker, etc. See under Arab, Broker, etc.

– Street door, a door which opens upon a street, or is nearest the street.

Syn.

– See Way.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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