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avenue
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æv.??nju?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æv.??n(j)u/
- Hyphenation: av?e?nue
Noun
avenue (plural avenues)
- A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
- 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.
- The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
- (urban toponymy) A street, especially, in cities laid out in a grid pattern, one that is in a particular side of the city or that runs in a particular direction.
Usage notes
Sometimes used interchangeably with other terms such as street. When distinguished, an avenue is generally broad and tree-lined. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid, notably Manhattan, streets run east-west, while avenues run north-south.
When abbreviated in an address (such as "Malcolm Ave" or "Fisher Av.") a capital "A" is normally used and a full stop (period) only used if "e" is not the last letter of the abbreviation.
In French traditionally used for routes between two places within a city, named for the destination (or formally where it is coming from), as in the archetypal Avenue des Champs-Élysées. This distinction is not observed in US English, where names such as “Fifth Avenue” are common. In British English, 'Avenue' is usually more associated with a tree-lined street and is sometimes named after the species of tree e.g. Acacia Avenue.
Synonyms
- (broad street): drive, boulevard
- (broad street): av., av, ave., ave (abbreviation)
Translations
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av?ny/, [æv??ny]
Noun
avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)
- avenue
Inflection
References
- “avenue” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin adveni?, adven?re (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + veni?, ven?re (“come”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /av.ny/
Noun
avenue f (plural avenues)
- avenue (broad street, especially bordered with trees)
- (specifically) a radial avenue (an avenue radiating from a central point, especially bordered with trees)
- (dated) avenue (principal walk or approach to a house or other building)
- (figuratively) avenue (means by which something may be accomplished)
Derived terms
- (abbreviation): av., av, ave., ave
Adjective
avenue
- feminine singular of avenu
Further reading
- “avenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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instrumentality
English
Etymology
instrumental +? -ity
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?nst??m?n?tal?ti/
Noun
instrumentality (countable and uncountable, plural instrumentalities)
- (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
- In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
- (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
- 1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2):
- Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
- 1994, Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2):
- (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument.
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