Avenue
['æv(ə)njuː] or ['ævənu]
Definition
(noun.) a line of approach; 'they explored every avenue they could think of'; 'it promises to open new avenues to understanding'.
(noun.) a wide street or thoroughfare.
Inputed by Enoch--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
(n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
(n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
Editor: Mervin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach, passage-way.[2]. Alley, walk, street, road, path.[3]. Channel, route, way, pass.
Checker: Neil
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Approach, adit, access, entrance
ANT:Exit, egress
Typist: Sol
Definition
n. the principal approach to a country-house usually bordered by trees: a double row of trees with or without a road: a wide and handsome street with or without trees esp. in America: any passage or entrance into a place: (fig.) means of access or attainment.
Inputed by Jeff
Examples
- By no means, Alexandros; for by so doing we would close up the only avenue of escape left to us. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I wonder, he said to himself, pausing for a moment in the shadowy avenue,—I wonder if my uncle is still alive. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She reached Fifth Avenue and began to walk slowly northward. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in Serpentine Avenue. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Oh, I thought you came back by the avenue. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But Miss Bertram thought it most becoming to reply-- The avenue! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There was naught to do other than seek a new avenue of escape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Not that the family would admit that: they think Fifth Avenue is Heaven with the rue de la Paix thrown in. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I was up at 65 Fifth Avenue one afternoon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By St Dunstan, said Gurth, as he stumbled up the dark avenue, this is no Jewess, but an angel from heaven! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The avenue, therefore, must be at the back of it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Archer had the nocturnal perspective of Fifth Avenue almost to himself. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The first few months I was with Edison he spent most of the time in the office at 65 Fifth Avenue. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I fear so; unless— Here Justinian paused abruptly, and walked rapidly along the mulberry avenue, in which they were now. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But instead of narrowing the scope of politics, to avoid it, the only sensible thing to do is to invent methods which will allow needs and problems and group interests avenues into politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The avenues and plazas of Helium were filled with people. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The bridge is divided into five avenues: one central one for foot passengers, two outer ones for vehicles, and the others for the street cars. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Memory, observation, reading, communication, are all avenues for supplying data. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The statues are all large; the palace is grand; the park covers a fair-sized county; the avenues are interminable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I expect several persons to call to-day, and it will be inconvenient to have the avenues to the house crowded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mists hide in the avenues, veil the points of view, and move in funeral-wise across the rising grounds. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From it two avenues of stones, each a mile and a half long, ran west and south on either side of Silbury Hill. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But suppose that politics were made responsive--suppose that the forces of the community found avenues of expression into public life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Of course we drove in the Bois de Boulogne, that limitless park, with its forests, its lakes, its cascades, and its broad avenues. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The trees in no two avenues are shaped alike, and consequently the eye is not fatigued with anything in the nature of monotonous uniformity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Safe I passed down the avenues--safe I mixed with the crowd where it was deepeSt. To be still was not in my power, nor quietly to observe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On the evening before our departure I saw them approaching along one of the great avenues which lead into the plaza from the east. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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