street sign
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- noun
- /striːt saɪn/
:
señal de tráfico
- The street sign at the corner clearly indicated that parking was prohibited on weekdays.
- read a street sign
OK, it was my fault, but it wasn't my fault cuz the street sign was bent crooked like that.
- OK, it was my fault, but it wasn't my fault cuz the street sign was bent crooked like that.
- As Jose was going out driving one night, he was confused by the street signs in a place he had never been to before.
- So that stuff, there was a shot where you're driving down the highway and all the street signs are written in cursive.
- But we had also set up street signs on the left side, one for each year.
Examples
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As Jose was going out driving one night, he was confused by the street signs in a place he had never been to before.
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Remember, obey all appropriate street signs.
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Does anybody know why street signs are now blue?
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I could read all the street signs.
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I can read the street signs.
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A street sign says ''One Way, East,'' I go west.
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We can see from the street signs that we're on 118th Street, a few houses off First Avenue.
Fiction book (1999) -
Intuitively, one might expect street signs to serve as landmarks and aid in navigation.
Academic text (2011) -
I must have read aloud every street sign, traffic sign, and billboard all the way home, a twenty-minute drive.
Academic text (2007) -
Every time they passed a street sign, Russ slowed and gazed at it uneasily.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A post with a sign that shows directions or information about a place
A sign by the road that shows drivers where places are
How Informative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sign placed near or along a road' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'street' (a public road) with 'sign' (a board displaying information). The noun–noun modifier pattern (a sign associated with a street) is common and predictable cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Street sign comes from the simple picture of a sign fixed at the side of a street to show a name, a direction, or a rule. That's why it means 'a sign placed near a road that shows street names, directions, or traffic rules'.