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noun
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
Etymology: (term, strít, , paved road, Roman road), from West Germanic, from late Latin (term, strata, lang=la), used as a short form of (term, , via strata, paved road). The West Germanic form also gave Dutch (term, straat), German (term, Straíe) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English); cognates from Latin include Portuguese (term, estrada), Italian (term, strada).
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