Noun: woonerf
| Singular | woonerf |
| Plural | woonerfs; woonerven |
Sample Sentences
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Other problems cited by Poulton include overall circulation problems, parking problems for service vans, and the difficulty strangers have finding their way around a woonerf. [1992, Stephen Carr, Public Space, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 142:]
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He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk. [2007 July 29, Gregory Beyer, “Where Street, Sidewalk and Sanity Intersect”, in New York Times:]
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch woonerf (“living street”). See: Dutch Nouns '
woonerf'.