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calle

calle

6 8.8
A street in a Spanish-speaking place, often in towns or cities
  • noun
  • /ˈkɑːleɪ/
: calle
  • We strolled down Calle Mercaderes, taking in the charming old buildings.
  • La calle
  • Calle del
  • Calle de

And as we learned again on Sunday when Diaz Canal spoke, La Calle este Los revolucionarios, the street belongs to the revolutionaries.

Examples

  • At present heading south, repeat, south, on Calle de San Pablo.

  • 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.

  • 1253 calle federal, apartment 3.

  • 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

street
vscalle
∞ 1.0

A public road in a town or city with buildings and sidewalks

is used as the Spanish regional term or in certain place names

How Big

highway
751 1.0
boulevard
151 3.5
avenue
593 1.0
calle
6 8.8
street
∞ 1.0
lane
469 1.0
alley
385 1.0

Surface Forms

calle singular
calles plural

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.