avenue

English

Etymology

From French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin advenire (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + venire (“come”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈæv.əˌnju/, X-SAMPA: /"{v.@%nju/
• (US) IPA: /ˈæv.əˌnu/, X-SAMPA: /"{v@%nu/

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Noun

avenue (plural avenues)

1. A broad street, especially one bordered by trees (Wikipedia).
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 The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
   • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, The Dust of Conflict^[1]:

     They said nothing further, but tramped on in the growing darkness, past farm steadings, into the little village, through the silent churchyard where generations of the Pallisers lay, and up the beech avenue that led to Northrop Hall.

4. A method or means by which something may be accomplished.

   There are several avenues by which we can approach this problem.

   • 2012 18 April, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, BBC Sport:

     Alexis Sanchez hit the crossbar for Barcelona early on and Pedro hit the post in the dying seconds - while Cole cleared off the line from Cesc Fabregas. Goalkeeper Petr Cech also saved well from Messi and Carles Puyol as Pep Guardiola's team tried every avenue in an attempt to break Chelsea down.

Synonyms

• (broad street): drive, boulevard
• (broad street): av. , av , ave. , ave (abbreviation)

Translations

broad street

• Armenian: պողոտա (hy) (poġota), (colloquial) պրոսպեկտ (hy) (prospekt)
• Bulgarian: авеню (bg) (avenjú) n
• Catalan: avinguda (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大道 (cmn) (dàdào), 大街 (cmn) (dàjiē), 大路 (cmn) (dàlù)

• Czech: třída (cs) f
• Danish: allé (da) c, avenue (da) c
• Dutch: weg (nl), laan (nl)
• Esperanto: avenuo (eo)
• Finnish: valtakatu (fi), puistokatu (fi)
• French: avenue (fr) f
• Georgian: პროსპექტი (ka) (prospek'ti)
• German: Allee (de) f
• Greek: λεωφόρος (el) (leofóros), αστική οδική αρτηρία (el) (astikí odikí artiría)
• Hebrew: שׂדרה (he) (sdera)
• Hungarian: út (hu), sugárút (hu)
• Icelandic: troð (is), breiðstræti (is) n

• Irish: aibhinne (ga) m
• Italian: viale (it), corso (it)
• Japanese: 大道り (ja) (おおどおり, ōdōri)
• Korean: 거리 (ko) (geori)
• Latin: advenita
• Lojban: klaji (jbo)
• Norwegian: allé (no) m
• Pashto: واټ (ps) (wātt) m
• Polish: aleja (pl)
• Portuguese: avenida (pt)
• Romanian: cale (ro) f, avenue (ro) f
• Russian: авеню (ru) (avenjú) f (indeclinable), проспект (ru) (prospékt) m
• Sicilian: dromu (scn) m
• Spanish: avenida (es)
• Swedish: aveny (sv)
• Tagalog: abenida (tl)
• Vietnamese: đại lộ (vi)

way or opening; a passage

• Bulgarian: алея (bg) (aleja)
• Finnish: reitti (fi)

• Greek: οδός (el) (oðós) f, δρόμος (el) (ðrómos) m

principal approach to a house withdrawn from the road

• Dutch: laan (nl)
• Greek: οδός (el) (oðós) f, δρόμος (el) (ðrómos) m

• Polish: podjazd (pl) m

a method or means

• Hungarian: út (hu)

• Spanish: vía (es) f, camino (es) m

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Danish

Etymology

From French avenue, from Old French avenue, feminine past participle of avenir (“approach”), from Latin advenire (“come to”), from ad (“to”) + venire (“come”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /avəny/, [ævəˈny]

Noun

avenue c (singular definite avenuen, plural indefinite avenuer)

1. avenue

Inflection

    Inflection of avenue

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	avenue	avenuen	avenuer	avenuerne
genitive	avenues	avenuens	avenuers	avenuernes

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /av(ə)ny/

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Noun

avenue f (plural avenues)

1. avenue

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): av. , av , ave. , ave