different between street vs ward

English

Alternative forms

• streete (obsolete), streat (obsolete), streate (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: str?t
• IPA^(key): /st?i?t/,
• (Philadelphia) IPA^(key): [?t???i?]
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): [sk?it?], [?k?it?]
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology

From Middle English streete, strete, stret, strate, from Old English str?t, str?t (“a road, a town-road, a street, a paved road, high road”), from Proto-West Germanic *str?tu (“street”), an early borrowing from Late Latin (via) str?ta (“paved (road)”), from Latin str?tus, past participle of stern? (“stretch out, spread, bestrew with, cover, pave”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh?- (“to stretch out, extend, spread”). Cognate with Scots stret, strete, streit (“street”), Saterland Frisian Sträite (“street”), West Frisian strjitte (“street”), Dutch straat (“street”), German Low German Straat (“street”), German Straße (“street”), Swedish stråt (“way, path”), Icelandic stræti (“street”) (Scandinavian forms are borrowed from Old English), Portuguese estrada (“road, way, drive”), Italian strada (“road, street”). Related to Old English str?owian, strewian (“to strew, scatter”). More at strew.

The vowel shifted from /a?/ in Latin to /æ?/ in Old English (Anglo-Frisian brightening), /??/ in Middle English, /e?/ in Early Modern English, and finally /i?/ in Modern English (the Great Vowel Shift).

Noun

street (plural streets)

1. A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.

   Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.

2. A road as above but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.

   I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.

3. The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
4. The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
5. An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.

   I got some pot cheap on the street.

6. (slang) Streetwise slang.
   • 2008, Andrew Fleming and Pam Brady, Hamlet 2, Focus Features

     Toaster is street for guns.

7. (figuratively) A great distance.

   He's streets ahead of his sister in all the subjects in school.

   • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [1]

     England were once again static in their few attacks, only Tuilagi's bullocking runs offering any threat, Flood reduced to aiming a long-range drop-goal pit which missed by a street.

8. (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
9. (attributive) Living in the streets.

10. (urban toponymy) By restriction, the streets that run perpendicular to avenues.

Usage notes

• In the generic sense of "a road", the term is often used interchangeably with road, avenue, and other similar terms.

^ In the English language, in its narrow usage street specifically means a paved route within a settlement (generally city or town), reflecting the etymology, while a road is a route between two settlements. Further, in many American cities laid out on a grid (notably Manhattan, New York City) streets are contrasted with avenues and run perpendicular to each other, with avenues frequently wider and longer than streets.

• In the sense of "a road", the prepositions in and on have distinct meanings when used with street, with "on the street" having idiomatic meaning in some dialects. In general for thoroughfares, "in" means "within the bounds of", while "on" means "on the surface of, especially traveling or lying", used relatively interchangeably ("don’t step in the road without looking", "I met her when walking on the road").

• By contrast, "living on the street" means to be living an insecure life, often homeless or a criminal. Further, to "hear something on the street" means to learn through rumor, also phrased as "word on the street is...".

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

street (comparative more street, superlative most street)

1. (slang) Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
   • 2003, Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill, James P. Baen, Mad Maudlin

     Eric had to admit that she looked street—upscale street, but still street. Kayla's look tended to change with the seasons; at the moment it was less Goth than paramilitary, with laced jump boots.

Verb

street (third-person singular simple present streets, present participle streeting, simple past and past participle streeted)

1. To build or equip with streets.
   • 1999, Ralph C. Hancock, America, the West, and Liberal Education, Rowman & Littlefield ?ISBN, page 89

     After all, Thomas, in whose thinking Aristotle and Christ combine as never before or since, was censured by the Church, fortunately in absentia, after he had been " absented" from this little threshing floor, streeted with straw, our earth, and was, presumably, dwelling in beatific felicity, in any case, safe from Bishop Tempier.

   • 2011, Robert White, Romantic Getaways in San Francisco & the Bay Area, Hunter Publishing, Inc ?ISBN

     There is a cemetery next to the Mission, a small part of the huge one which was streeted over.

2. To eject; to throw onto the streets.
   • 1959, The Irish Digest

     Stage doormen and all sorts of doormen are very quick at streeting a man who won't move fast. I know a well-known Irishman who at a New York theatre was streeted just because he was insisting on getting in when the house was apparently booked out.

3. (sports, by extension) To heavily defeat.
   • 2002, John Maynard, Aborigines and the ‘Sport of Kings’: Aboriginal Jockeys in Australian Racing History, Aboriginal Studies Press (2013), ?ISBN, part II, 96:

     Wearing his custom-made silks, McCarthy duly rode the horse a treat as they streeted the opposition and helped connections clean up the bookies.

   • 2008, Steve Menzies, Norman Tasker, Beaver: The Steve Menzies Story, Allen & Unwin, ?ISBN, chapter 1, 5:

     But when I came back in Round 14, the team had lost only two of those previous 13 games, we were sitting with Melbourne at the top of the premiership table and the two clubs had virtually streeted the rest of the competition.

   • 2014, Rochelle Llewelyn Nicholls, Joe Quinn Among the Rowdies: The Life of Baseball's Honest Australian, McFarland & Company, Inc., ?ISBN, part VI, chapter 14, 205:

     Pennant winners Kansas City and nearest rivals St. Paul had streeted the Western League in 1901, but were brought back to the field in 1902 by a powerful Omaha outfit who just missed out on the pennant, their .600 win-loss percentage just outdone by Kansas City's .603.

4. To go on sale.
   • 2003, Billboard, page 55

     He points to the success of a recent Destiny's Child DVD that streeted just after member Beyonce's new solo CD
5. (Japanese Mormonism) To proselytize in public.
   • 2007, John Patrick Hoffmann, Japanese Saints: Mormons in the Land of the Rising Sun, Lexington Books ?ISBN, page 94

     Although streeting or tracting, as the first two contacting methods are known, tend to produce negligible results when seen through a broad sociological lens, there was often something about meeting American missionaries that appealed to our Japanese Latter-day Saints.

   • 2010, Eugene Woodbury, Tokyo South, Peaks Island Press, ?ISBN, chapter 9, 86:

     They streeted the rest of the afternoon, and each picked up an intro lesson. They went back to the church after dinner.

Anagrams

• Setter, Tester, Teters, retest, setter, tester

Middle English

Noun

street

1. Alternative form of strete

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /w??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /w??d/
• Rhymes: -??(r)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English ward, from Old English weard (“keeper, watchman, guard, guardian, protector; lord, king; possessor”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Cognate with German Wart.

Noun

ward (plural wards)

1. (archaic or obsolete) A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:

     no gate they found, them to withhold, / Nor ward to wait at morne and euening late [...].

Etymology 2

From Middle English ward, warde, from Old English weard (“watching, ward, protection, guardianship; advance post; waiting for, lurking, ambuscade”), from Proto-Germanic *ward? (“protection, attention, keeping”), an extension of the stem *wara- (“attentive”) (English wary, beware), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”). Cognate with German Warte (“watchtower”), warten (“wait for”); English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

Noun

ward (countable and uncountable, plural wards)

1. Protection, defence.
   1. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
   2. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

        Before the dore sat selfe-consuming Care, / Day and night keeping wary watch and ward, / For feare least Force or Fraud should vnaware / Breake in […]

   3. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
      • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book V:

        So forth the presoners were brought before Arthure, and he commaunded hem into kepyng of the conestabyls warde, surely to be kepte as noble presoners.

      • It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.

   4. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises/demographic.
   5. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
   6. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
2. A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
   1. An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
      • 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate 2006, page 149:

        Diocletian […] must certainly have derived some consolation from the grandeur of Aspalaton, the great arcaded wall it turned to the Adriatic, its four separate wards, each town size, and its seventeen watch-towers […].

      • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 78:

        With the castle so crowded, the outer ward had been given over to guests to raise their tents and pavilions, leaving only the smaller inner yards for training.

   2. A section or subdivision of a prison.
   3. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.

      • Throughout the trembling city placed a guard, / Dealing an equal share to every ward.

   4. (Britain) A division of a forest.
   5. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
   6. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
3. A person under guardianship.
   1. A minor looked after by a guardian.
   2. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
4. An object used for guarding.
   1. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
      • , II.1:

        A man must thorowly sound himselfe, and dive into his heart, and there see by what wards or springs the motions stirre.

      • 1852-1854, Charles Tomlinson, Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts and Manufactures

        The lock is made […] more secure by attaching wards to the front, as well as to the back, plate of the lock, in which case the key must be furnished with corresponding notches.

      • 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Resident Patient’, Norton 2005, page 628:

        With the help of a wire, however, they forced round the key. Even without the lens you will perceive, by the scratches on this ward, where the pressure was applied.

Derived terms

• wardroom
• (part of a hospital where patients reside): convalescent ward, critical ward

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English warden, from Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep, protect, preserve; hold, possess, occupy, inhabit; rule, govern”), from Proto-West Germanic *ward?n, from Proto-Germanic *ward?n?, *ward?n? (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”).

Verb

ward (third-person singular simple present wards, present participle warding, simple past and past participle warded)

1. (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
2. (transitive) To defend, to protect.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:

     they went to seeke their owne death, and rushed amidst the thickest of their enemies, with an intention, rather to strike, than to ward themselves.

3. (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
   • 1609, Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wares

     Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.

   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     The pointed javelin warded off his rage.

   • It instructs the scholar in the various methods of warding off the force of objections.

4. (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     They for vs fight, they watch and dewly ward, / And their bright Squadrons round about vs plant [...].

5. (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.

Synonyms

• (to fend off): ward off

Derived terms

• beward

Translations

See also

• Ward on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ward in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• draw

German

Alternative forms

• wurde (modern German)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?t/

Verb

ward

1. (archaic) first/third-person singular indicative past of werden
   • Genesis 1:3

Usage notes

Occasionally found in deliberately archaicizing, poetic or biblical contexts.

Further reading

• “ward” in Duden online

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (ward).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wart/

Noun

ward m (collective, singulative warda, plural urad or uradi or urud or uradijiet, paucal wardiet)

1. rose, roses

Derived terms

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English ward.

Noun

ward m (genitive singular ward, plural wardyn)

1. ward (in a hospital)