courtyard vs street

courtyard

noun
  • An area, open to the sky, partially or wholly surrounded by walls or buildings. 

street

noun
  • A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings. 

  • The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout. 

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

  • The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood. 

  • Wall Street. 

  • Streetwise slang. 

  • Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river. 

  • A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles. 

  • An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs. 

  • 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. 

  • Living in the streets. 

  • A great distance. 

adj
  • Having street cred; conforming to modern urban trends. 

verb
  • To go on sale. 

  • To heavily defeat. 

  • To eject; to throw onto the streets. 

  • To build or equip with streets. 

  • To proselytize in public. 

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