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SIDE STREET
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Dictionary entry overview: What does side street mean?
• SIDE STREET (noun)
The noun SIDE STREET has 1 sense:
1. a street intersecting a main street and terminating there
Familiarity information: SIDE STREET used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A street intersecting a main street and terminating there
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("side street" is a kind of...):
street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)
Context examples
She proceeded so quickly, when she got free of the two currents of passengers setting towards and from the bridge, that, between this and the advance she had of us when she struck off, we were in the narrow water-side street by Millbank before we came up with her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight. I think he was afraid they would dart down a side street and out of his life forever.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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