AVENUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does avenue mean? 

• AVENUE (noun)
  The noun AVENUE has 2 senses:

1. a line of approach

2. a wide street or thoroughfare

  Familiarity information: AVENUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVENUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line of approach

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

it promises to open new avenues to understanding

Hypernyms ("avenue" is a kind of...):

approach; attack; plan of attack (ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wide street or thoroughfare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

avenue; boulevard

Hypernyms ("avenue" is a kind of...):

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Instance hyponyms:

Fifth Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side)

Seventh Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that runs north and south)

 Context examples 

At eleven o’clock next morning my friend and I were walking up the famous yew avenue of Holdernesse Hall.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The house was an old-fashioned, wide-spread, oak-beamed brick building, with a fine lime-lined avenue leading up to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were on the upper floor, and from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This time he had broken out through the window of his room, and was running down the avenue.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We had better go into the avenue.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The fountains, gardens, walks, avenues, and groves, were all disposed with exact judgment and taste.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was glaring down the avenue, and his eyes followed mine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A cold and melancholy walk of a couple of miles brought us to a high wooden gate, which opened into a gloomy avenue of chestnuts.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)