street vs avenue

avenue vs street

street and avenue both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
street	Yes	No	No	No
avenue	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, avenue is a hyponym of street; that is, avenue is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than street:

street: a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
avenue: a wide street or thoroughfare

Other hyponyms of street include alley, alleyway, back street, boulevard, cross street, local road, local street, high street, main street, mews, rue, side street.

street (noun)	avenue (noun)
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings	a line of approach
the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel	a wide street or thoroughfare
people living or working on the same street
the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
a situation offering opportunities

Difference between street and avenue

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