woonerf

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch woonerf (“living street”).

Noun

woonerf (plural woonerfs or woonerven)

1. (Canada) a street in which pedestrians and cyclists have priority over motorists.
   • 2007 July 29, Gregory Beyer, “Where Street, Sidewalk and Sanity Intersect”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He and his staff looked worldwide — to Trafalgar Square in London, to the Spanish Steps in Rome — and found that the designs best suited to the intersections were the Netherlands’ curbless woonerfs, which make no differentiation between street and sidewalk.

Synonyms

• (type of street): living street, (UK, Ireland) home zone, (US) complete street, (Australia, NZ) shared zone

Dutch

Etymology

From wonen (“to live”) +‎ erf (“yard”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

woonerf n (plural woonerven, diminutive woonerfje n)

1. woonerf