Dictionary Definition
avenue
Noun
1 a line of approach; "they explored every avenue
they could think of"; "it promises to open new avenues to
understanding"
2 a wide street or thoroughfare [syn: boulevard]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir "approach", from Latin advenire "come to", from ad "to" + venire "come".Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈævəˌn(j)u/
- SAMPA: /"
Extensive Definition
Avenue may refer to:
- Avenue (landscape), a straight road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side
- Avenue (archaeology), a specialist term in archaeology referring to lines of stones
- A common part of street names, often for roads with lines of trees on either side
- Avenue is an GIS scripting language for ArcView 3.x
- Avenue Road, a major north-south street in Toronto, Ontario
- Electric Avenue (song), an Eddy Grant song which was covered by Refugee Camp All Stars under the title Avenues.
See also
avenue in German: Avenue
avenue in Hungarian: Sugárút
avenue in Japanese: アヴェニュー
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Autobahn, US highway, access, aisle, alley, alleyway, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, arterial, arterial highway,
arterial street, artery,
autoroute, autostrada, belt highway,
blind alley, blowhole,
boulevard, bypass, byway, camino real, carriageway, causeway, causey, channel, chaussee, chute, circumferential,
cloister, close, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection, corduroy road,
corridor, county road,
court, covered way,
crescent, cul-de-sac,
dead-end street, debouch, defile, dike, dirt road, door, drag, drive, driveway, egress, emunctory, escape, estuary, exhaust, exit, expressway, ferry, floodgate, flume, ford, freeway, gallery, gravel road, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
inlet, interchange, intersection, interstate
highway, junction,
lane, local road, loophole, main drag, main road,
mews, motorway, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, overpass, parkway, pass, passage, passageway, path, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, pore, port, portico, primary highway,
private road, railroad tunnel, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale,
row, royal road, sally port,
secondary road, sluice,
speedway, spiracle, spout, state highway, street, superhighway, tap, terrace, thoroughfare, through
street, thruway, toll
road, township road, track, traject, trajet, tunnel, turnpike, underpass, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir, wynd