FIFTH AVENUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fifth Avenue mean? 

• FIFTH AVENUE (noun)
  The noun FIFTH AVENUE has 1 sense:

1. an avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side

  Familiarity information: FIFTH AVENUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIFTH AVENUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

avenue; boulevard (a wide street or thoroughfare)

Holonyms ("Fifth Avenue" is a part of...):

Manhattan (one of the five boroughs of New York City)

 Context examples 

He was walking ahead of me along Fifth Avenue in his alert, aggressive way, his hands out a little from his body as if to fight off interference, his head moving sharply here and there, adapting itself to his restless eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

We drove over to Fifth Avenue, so warm and soft, almost pastoral, on the summer Sunday afternoon that I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)