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street name

street name

4 1.0
The official word used to find a road and write addresses
  • noun
  • /strit neɪm/
translation icon : nombre de la calle
  • At Bottesford, some street name changes are recent.
  • official street name
  • change the street name
  • municipal street name

So anyway, he recognized the street name.

Examples

  • Despite early industrialization, neither Beeston nor Arnold has street names derived from that activity.

    Academic text (1990)

  • By 1905, approximately 10 percent of municipal street names alluded to associations with various Asian communities (Firmstone 1905).

    Academic text (1992)

  • Bad enough that all the street names are in Spanish.

    Lone Star (1996)

  • Her eye settled on a street name.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • Such practices resulted in clusters of related street names based on a common theme.

    Academic text (1992)

  • For the Asian communities, street names served as signposts of daily activities.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Other descriptive street names owed their origins to the physical structure of the streets.

    Academic text (1992)

  • Municipal attempts to enhance the acceptability and usage of official street names among the Asian communities had limited success.

    Academic text (1992)

  • With the exception of Sneinton, all the former villages around Nottingham have retained some old street names.

    Academic text (1990)

  • The city council decided to add new signs for the street names to help improve navigation.

How Specific

street name
4 1.0
place name
4 2.3
city
∞ 1.0
region
977 2.0
country
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

street name singular
street names plural

Morphology

street + name

The financial-jargon sense 'securities held in a broker's name' is a specialized, non-literal use that cannot be inferred from the ordinary meanings of 'street' and 'name' (a B1 learner would most likely interpret it as 'the name of a street'). This domain-specific extension is essentially idiomatic and unpredictable from the constituents, so learners who know the words but not the term will not derive the intended meaning.

Etymology

The phrase street name comes from the name written on signs beside a road that help people find places and send mail. So it means the 'official name' of a road used for addresses and maps.