avenues

noun

plural of avenue
1
as in streets
a passage cleared for public vehicular travel a city famous for its broad, tree-lined avenues

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2
as in paths
an established course for traveling from one place to another the two main avenues available to those joining in the California gold rush were the trail across the Southwest desert or the hazard-filled loop around Central and South America

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Recent Examples of avenues Westbound Northwest 21st Terrace between Fifth and Sixth avenues. — Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 The brouhaha offers many avenues for discourse and cultural dissection. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026 Giving Lee a love interest and expanding his family lore are natural avenues of expansion, but the show also has a strong sense of its core competency. — Alison Herman, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026 The footage was captured near the intersection of Franklin and Normandie avenues, near the John Sowden House, just before noon. — Laurie Perez, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Muslims and Christians frequent downtown shops, lively plazas and broad avenues, but the Muslim-majority neighborhoods see less mixing. — ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026 The subject of educational equality is particularly acute in a country that places great emphasis on credentials and diplomas, offering few other avenues for success. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026 Power Inn Road was closed for several hours between Elder Creek and Lemon Hill avenues while officers investigated. — Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 Recognizing this, brands have opened new avenues to sell apparel to their fans beyond venues, flagship stores and the internet, most notably via pop-up shops. — Matt Martell, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for avenues
  1. streets
  2. paths
  3. thoroughfares
  4. routes
  5. roads
  6. approaches
  7. highways
  8. freeways
Noun
  • The force, which rose to a peak of about 5,000 troops over the summer, has supported arrest operations, patrolled city streets and neighborhoods, and participated in cleanup efforts.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Video from the scene obtained by CNN showed ambulances rushing through narrow streets and crowds gathered outside the school building.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of streets
Noun
  • Imagine that two planets orbit a star on very similar paths, but one (call it Planet 1) is just barely closer to the star than the other (Planet 2).
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In contrast, a learner that assumes the world has shape, persistent objects, agents with goals, causes that precede effects and space with paths through it only needs enough data to locate things within that structure.
    — Charles Yeomans, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of paths
Noun
  • The resulting long lineups snake out from working gas stations into the main thoroughfares of Moscow and other Russian cities.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Rancho Cordova was awarded more than $3 million in grants from a local agency for two road improvement projects on major city thoroughfares.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of thoroughfares
Noun
  • One of the first to try on that hat was the agency's Perseverance rover on Mars, which used machine learning to plan and complete its first drive on the Red Planet using routes mapped out by generative AI in December 2025.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Throughout the war, Russia has repeatedly bombarded Ukraine’s Black Sea and Danube river ports, leaving Kyiv increasingly reliant on alternative routes to get its grain exports to markets in Africa and the Middle East.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of routes
Noun
  • Most mountain roads should remain wet, but slick conditions are possible above 9,000 feet, especially after dark.
    — Joe Ruch, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Critics also worried that an unplanned surge in housing could strain schools, roads and other infrastructure.
    — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of roads
Noun
  • The White House decision has heightened fears that Ukraine could be left exposed to Moscow's escalating attacks as winter approaches.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Over the four decades since, communities have taken different approaches to bring CPR into the classroom.
    — Meng Yang, Time, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of approaches
Noun
  • The two highways are major entry points to the center of Kansas City and downtown.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
  • For residents like Smith, the idea of transforming space above one of Atlanta's busiest highways offers a glimpse of what downtown could become.
    — Jamal Goss, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of highways
Noun
  • By the time the coffee shop building was going up at the end of the route in 1959, Fresco said, interstate freeways were already beginning to usurp Route 66’s role and the Santa Monica route of Interstate 10 had been plotted.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Director Christopher Nolan uses the premise to stage spectacular sequences where cars reverse down freeways at high speed, cause and effect goes topsy-turvy, and fights are just, well, weird.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of freeways

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“Avenues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/avenues. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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