street – English noun declension

English noun forms of street

Noun: street
Singularstreet
Pluralstreets

Sample Sentences

  • Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
  • The man wearing a red coat is standing on the street.
  • I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
  • I've been shopping in Oxford Street.
  • Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 24:]
  • I got some pot cheap on the street.
  • The seized drugs had a street value of $5 million.
  • Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street.
  • Professional services and other revenue made up $577 million, edging out street estimates for $541.4 million.
  • a street cat
  • a street urchin
  • Toaster is street for guns. [2008, Andrew Fleming, Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features:]
  • Streets say something's happening tomorrow.
  • He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.
  • England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street. [2011, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ster-
3. Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
5. Proto-Indo-European *str̥h₃tós
6. Proto-Italic *strātos
7. Latin strātus
8. Latin via strātaellip.
9. Late Latin strātabor.
10. Proto-West Germanic *strātu
11. Anglian Old English strēt
12. Middle English strete
13. English street
14. Inherited from Middle English strete, from Anglian Old English strēt (“street”, compare West Saxon Old English strǣt) from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) strāta (“paved (road)”), from Latin strātus, past participle of sternō (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Doublet of estrade and stratum.
15. The /aː/ vowel of the Latin form shifted by Anglo-Frisian brightening to /æː/ in West Saxon and /eː/ in Anglian Old English; these developed respectively to /ɛː/ and /eː/ in Middle English, /ɛː/ and /iː/ in Early Modern English, and finally /iː/ in Modern English by the Great Vowel Shift. The modern spelling reflects the Anglian form, as in sleep, greedy, sheep.
16. Cognates
17. Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), North Frisian Straat, stroot, struat (“street”) (North Frisian forms are borrowed from Middle Low German strâte), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Bavarian Stråßn (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”) (see doublet straat), German Strasse, Straße (“street”), German Low German Straat, Straote (“street”), Limburgish sjtraot, straot (“street”), Luxembourgish Strooss (“street”), Mòcheno stros (“street”), Vilamovian śtrös, štrȫs (“street”), Yiddish שטראָז (shtroz, “street”), Danish stræde (“alley, lane, narrow street”), Faroese and Icelandic stræti (“street”), Norwegian Bokmål strede (“narrow street”), Swedish stråt (“path, road, route; way, course”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese and Spanish estrada (“road”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English strēowian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”), Latin sternō, Ancient Greek στορνύναι (stornúnai). More at strew. See: Middle English Nouns 'strete', Middle English Nouns 'strete', Latin Nouns 'strātus', Dutch Nouns 'straat', German Nouns 'Strasse', Danish Nouns 'stræde', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'strede', Swedish Nouns 'stråt', Italian Nouns 'strada', Old English Nouns 'strēowian', Latin Nouns 'sternō'.