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avenue

  • /ˈæv.əˌnjuː/ UK
  • /ˈæv.əˌn(j)u/ US

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”)).

noun avenues

  1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction. Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Aven

    Similar: drive, boulevard, av., av, ave., ave

  2. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit. [S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.
  3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
  4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished. There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: boulevard, street, lane, via, thoroughfare, pathway, way, road, path, route, trackage, tool, mechanism, runway, conduit, strip

Translations

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noun broad street

Españolavenida
한국어거리 geori, 가로수길 garosugil, 대도 daedo
日本語大道り ōdōri, 並木道 namikimichi
中文大道 dàdào, 大街 dàjiē, 大路 dàlù
Portuguêsavenida
Françaisavenue
DeutschAllee
Italianoviale, corso
Ελληνικάλεωφόρος leofóros
Românăcale, avenue
Русскийавеню́ avenjú, проспе́кт prospékt, алле́я alléja
Tiếng Việtđại lộ, thông lộ
العربيةشَارِع šāriʕ
עבריתשְׂדֵרָה sderá

noun way or opening; a passage

Ελληνικάοδός odós, δρόμος drómos
Русскийалле́я alléja

noun principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road

Ελληνικάοδός odós, δρόμος drómos
Русскийподъе́зд podʺjézd

noun method or means

Españolvía, camino
Русскийпуть putʹ, сре́дство srédstvo, ме́тод métod

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@misc{avenue_2026,
  title = {avenue},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/avenue},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}