THE STREET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the Street mean? 

• THE STREET (noun)
  The noun THE STREET has 1 sense:

1. used to allude to the securities industry of the United States

  Familiarity information: THE STREET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE STREET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used to allude to the securities industry of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

the Street; Wall Street

Hypernyms ("the Street" is a kind of...):

market; securities industry (the securities markets in the aggregate)

 Context examples 

Catherine looked round and saw Miss Tilney leaning on her brother's arm, walking slowly down the street.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Marmee is coming down the street, and Laurie is tramping through the garden as if he had something nice to tell.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Already a few loiterers had begun to collect in the street.

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

Into the street, through the window.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He met Ruth on the street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I met her in the street this afternoon, and she wished to know if she might have the honour of waiting on you after dinner, sir.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Anne found Captain Benwick getting near her, as soon as they were all fairly in the street.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Ah, there goes Major Murphy on the other side of the street.

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

A minute later we were in the street once more.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We used to jump about together many a time, did not we? when the hand-organ was in the street?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)