woonerf
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch woonerf (“living street”).
Noun
[edit]woonerf (plural woonerfs or woonerven)
- (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
[edit]- (type of street): living street, (UK, Ireland) home zone, (US) complete street, (Australia, NZ) shared zone
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wonen (“to live”) + erf (“yard”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]woonerf n (plural woonerven, diminutive woonerfje n)
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