AVENUE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A line of approach

Example:

it promises to open new avenues to understanding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("avenue" is a kind of...):

approach; attack; plan of attack (ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wide street or thoroughfare

Synonyms:

avenue; boulevard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("avenue" is a kind of...):

street (a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings)

Instance hyponyms:

Fifth Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that separates the east side of Manhattan from the west side)

Seventh Avenue (an avenue in Manhattan that runs north and south)

Credits

Context examples:

These findings open avenues for the pursuit of new strategies to screen for, prevent, and treat glaucoma.

(Glaucoma-related genes revealed, NIH)

However, because this study took into account calcium intake, among other dietary factors, these results suggest that yogurt may be lowering risk though an avenue other than calcium.

(Eating Yogurt May Lower Risk of Colon Cancer in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

CHAI Foundation is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization formed to fund biomedical research into promising avenues largely ignored because they do not conform to current group-think.

(CHAI Foundation, NCI Thesaurus)

He broke into a trot, and Madge's lips pursed, forming an avenue for the caressing sound that it was the will of her to send forth. But the caressing sound was not made.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Every room on the west front looked across a lawn to the beginning of the avenue immediately beyond tall iron palisades and gates.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We were ascending the avenue when he thus paused; the hall was before us.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a fitting avenue to a land of wonders.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight—and its abundance of timber in rows and avenues, which neither fashion nor extravagance had rooted up.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This time, as the distance was short, I did not mount, but ran with Dogger's stirrup-leather to the lodge gates and up the long, leafless, moonlit avenue to where the white line of the hall buildings looked on either hand on great old gardens.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Or, if you shall so prefer to choose, a new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame and power shall be laid open to you, here, in this room, upon the instant; and your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan.