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What is the difference between Street and Avenue and Boulevard ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Street and Avenue and Boulevard ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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"So a ‘road’ is anything that connects two points, while ‘streets’ are public ways which have buildings on either side. Avenues, meanwhile, have the same attributes as streets but run perpendicular to them, while a boulevard is essentially a wide street (or avenue), with a median through the middle. A lane is, predictably, smaller."
As a native English speaker, I actually wasn't sure myself, but this seemed understandable enough.
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"street"- buildings on both sides
"boulevard" - pretty much a wide street
"avenue" - same as street but run perpendicular
All of them are kind of used they same way but we most commonly say "street"
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@Hasisi
"Street" is the generic word. You can almost always walk down a street or see someone on the street. Even if you're walking down Fifth Avenue, you may warn your kid not run out into the street.
Otherwise, you might refer to an avenue of boulevard because the name of the street is literally "Something Avenue" or "Someone Boulevard."
In New York, where the avenues run perpendicular to streets, you might say that something is on the avenue as a form of direction. For example, you might tell your friend that that amazing pizzeria you were talking about is on 23rd and Eighth, on the avenue.
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