Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Next the street; looking out on the street.
- noun Formerly, an officer who had the care of the streets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets.
- adjective Facing toward the street.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb toward the
street - adjective which faces the
street
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Examples
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Left with his guide to wait in a plain, windowless room just inside the streetward door, Godric could see through an inner doorway to a pillared walk around a courtyard garden thickly green with plants for which he had no names, with somewhere the sound of flowing water.
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Left with his guide to wait in a plain, windowless room just inside the streetward door, Godric could see through an inner doorway to a pillared walk around a courtyard garden thickly green with plants for which he had no names, with somewhere the sound of flowing water.
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Skif had tried to time his entry for when the moon was casting the most light on the streetward side of the house.
Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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* Abruptly he looked streetward and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Run, Millie!"
Cyber Way Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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A glance showed that his retreat streetward was still unblocked, as was the section of alley behind him.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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A glance showed that his retreat streetward was still unblocked, as was the section of alley behind him.
For Love Of Mother Not Foster, Alan Dean 1983
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A glance showed that his retreat streetward was still unblocked, as was the section of alley behind him.
For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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Slothrop screams and heads for the window, out onto the roof and over, scrambling down a galvanized pipe to the next streetward courtyard.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Old man Werner, with a muttered oath, went to the open doorway and stood there, puffing savage little spurts of smoke streetward.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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And, second, that from the householder's point of view, looking streetward from his garden's inner depth, its fence, when unplanted, is a blank interruption to his whole fair scheme of meandering foliage and bloom which on the other three sides frames in the lawn; as though the garden were a lovely stage scene with the fence for footlights, and some one had left the footlights unlit.
The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884
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