different between avenue vs mainstreet

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)

1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees.
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.
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 The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.
5. (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)

1. 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)

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)

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): av., av, ave., ave

Adjective

avenue

1. feminine singular of avenu

Further reading

• “avenue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

mainstreet (plural mainstreets)

1. (rare) Alternative form of Main Street

Anagrams

• antimeters, intermates, martensite, misentreat, terminates, tetramines