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avenue
[ av-uh-nyoo, -noo ]
noun
- a wide street or main thoroughfare.
- a means of access or attainment:
avenues of escape; avenues to greater power.
- a way or means of entering into or approaching a place:
the various avenues to India.
- Chiefly British.
- a wide, usually tree-lined road, path, driveway, etc., through grounds to a country house or monumental building.
- a suburban, usually tree-lined residential street.
avenue
/ ˈæɪˌː /
noun
- a broad street, often lined with trees
- capital as part of a street name a road, esp in a built-up area
Shaftesbury Avenue
- a main approach road, as to a country house
- a way bordered by two rows of trees
an avenue of oaks
- a line of approach
explore every avenue
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of avenue1
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Example Sentences
Over the years, Pakistan and India have pursued competing legal avenues under the treaty brokered by the World Bank.
Unaccompanied minors face a new reality under the Trump administration as they lose avenues to legal representation and fears grow about expediting removals.
Climate change “is a statistical thing that requires a fair amount of complexity, which leaves the human mind lots of avenues to escape from it,” Brosch told Salon in a video call.
The initiative hopes to turn an economic problem into an economic solution by giving older people a fun avenue to spend more.
“It will require cooperation across the border. It will require diplomacy and long-term funding from both governments, so it’s necessary to find those avenues to work with the Mexican government as well.”
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