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avenue
Universal Words
noun
1 (abbreviation Ave.) a street in a town or city:
a hotel on Fifth Avenue * 120 Holland Park Avenue
2 (BrE) a wide straight road with trees on both sides, especially one leading to a big house:
an avenue lined with plane trees
3 a choice or way of making progress towards sth:
Several avenues are open to us. * We will explore every avenue until we find an answer. * He saw suicide as the only avenue left open to him.
