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Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”, from ad (“to”) +‎ veniō, venīre (“come”)).

avenue (plural avenues)

  1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees or, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is on a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
    • 2009, Carrie Frasure, Arizona Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places, →ISBN, page 111:
      Finding an address east to west is fairly simple . The numbering begins at Central Avenue and moves logically and predictably either west through the avenues or east through the streets, so you know that 2400 East Camelback is at Twenty-Fourth Street or 4300 West Indian School is at Forty-Third Avenue .
    • 2011, Time Out Los Angeles, →ISBN, page 78:
      Boulevards typically (but not exclusively) go east to west; avenues usually run north to south.
    • 2014, Adrienne Onofri, Walking Queens, →ISBN:
      The City of New York implemented a unified street grid in Queens: Numbered avenues run east–west; numbered streets run north–south.
  2. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may be reached; a way of approach or of exit.
    • 1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [_i.e._, Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, page 32:
      [S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.
  3. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
    • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
      They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.
  4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
    There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.
    • 1796, George Washington, "Farewell Address", American Daily Advertiser:
      As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent Patriot.
    • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 427:
      The main reason for this state of affairs is probably that, for the exceptionally able man who accepts the present order of society, a multitude of other avenues to influence and power are open, while to the disaffected and dissatisfied an intellectual career is the most promising path to both influence and the power to contribute to the achievement of his ideals.
    • 2011 October 4, Amanda MacMillan, “Depressed brains may hate differently”, in CNN‎[1]:
      In the future, he says, a focus on the hate circuit may open new avenues for treatment – including new drugs and psychotherapies – that target this and other specific circuits in the brain.
    • 2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport‎[2]:
    • 2019 October, James Abbott, “Esk Valley revival”, in Modern Railways, page 78:
      One avenue being explored is the Esk Valley line's community rail designation status, to see if standards more appropriate to a main line railway can be challenged with a view to facilitating low-cost operation of a rural branch.

broad street

method or means

Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveniō, advenīre (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”).

avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)

  1. avenue

< French avenue

avenue

  1. (chiefly in translations) avenue (type of street)
    New Yorkin Kuudes Avenue
    New York's Sixth Avenue

From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin advenīre (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veniō, venīre (“come”).

avenue f (plural avenues)

  1. avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees)
  2. (specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees)
  3. (dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building)
  4. (figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished)

avenue

  1. feminine singular of avenu

Borrowed from French avenue.

avenue f (uncountable)

  1. avenue

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