Seventh Avenue
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3.4
- proper noun
- /ˈsɛvənθ ˈævəˌnju/
:
Séptima Avenida
- You stop at the Alhambra Theater on Seventh Avenue and buy tickets for that evening's performance of the musical Blackbirds.
Examples
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Vito slows as he spots a policeman on horseback on Seventh Avenue.
Fiction book (1991) -
At Seventh Avenue, he passed a construction site where women in work uniforms walked to and fro, bandannas around their heads.
Fiction book (1997) -
A new lobby entrance on Seventh Avenue that will be larger and will feature team stores.
Blog text (7) -
"Sold it for twenty-five bucks to that big dude who works Seventh Avenue around Central Park South."
Fiction book (1991) -
They finished dinner and walked up Seventh Avenue, holding hands and laughing.
Fiction book (1998) -
A few blocks away, the Galway Hooker bar at 133 Seventh Avenue was boarded up and covered with messages mocking the hurricane.
Blog text (11) -
Willy's father, once a clever young lawyer in Poland, begged a job from a distant cousin and spent the next thirteen years riding the Seventh Avenue IRT to a button-manufacturing firm on West Twenty-eighth Street.
Fiction book (2000) -
The bustling shops along Seventh Avenue attract tourists from all over the world.
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During the parade, we stood on the corner of Seventh Avenue to watch the festivities.
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Many famous theaters are located on Seventh Avenue, making it a cultural hotspot.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is simply an ordinal ('7th') plus a place type ('avenue'), so its referential meaning — the avenue numbered seven — is directly derivable from the constituents and follows common street-naming patterns found across languages. A B1 learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a specific street; they may not infer the precise location or cultural significance (Manhattan) but the core meaning is transparent.
Etymology
Seventh Avenue comes from it being the seventh avenue, a long street that runs north to south in Manhattan. Because many shops, fashion offices, theaters, and parades are on that road, Seventh Avenue now makes people think of business and city culture.