calle
- noun
- /ˈkɑːleɪ/
- We strolled down Calle Mercaderes, taking in the charming old buildings.
- La calle
- Calle del
- Calle de
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Watch on YouTubeAnd as we learned again on Sunday when Diaz Canal spoke, La Calle este Los revolucionarios, the street belongs to the revolutionaries.
- And as we learned again on Sunday when Diaz Canal spoke, La Calle este Los revolucionarios, the street belongs to the revolutionaries.
Examples
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At present heading south, repeat, south, on Calle de San Pablo.
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Lined with late nineteenth-early twentieth-century brown stone houses and shops, the Calle Iparraguirre is very crowded.
Academic text (1999) -
Task Force X, the creature is headed to Calle Principal.
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1253 calle federal, apartment 3.
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I've been in this calle often; I know it well.
Fiction book (1999) -
Locals were gathered in protest on Calle Colon.
Academic text (2010) -
Just go to the street named in her honor, Calle Merle Greene, in the modern town of Palenque, Mexico.
Academic text (2002) -
I am in front of the main PO in Centro on Calle Columbia just beyond Calle Venezuela.
Blog text (3) -
I stumbled down that gray staircase and out into the twisting calle.
Fiction book (1999) -
The east-west streets were numbered away from the ward: Calle Cinco, Calle Ocho.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A public road in a town or city with buildings and sidewalks
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Etymology
Calle is the Spanish word for 'street', from the old Latin word callis which meant 'path' or 'narrow way'. So when you see calle on a sign or map, it simply marks the name of a street, like a small 'alley' or road.