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A street is a public thoroughfare (usually paved) in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable surface such as concrete, cobblestone or brick. Portions may also be smoothed with asphalt, embedded with rails, or otherwise prepared to accommodate non-pedestrian traffic.
Originally the word "street" simply meant a paved road (Latin: "via strata"). The word "street" is still sometimes used colloquially as a synonym for "road", for example in connection with the ancient Watling Street, but city residents and urban planners draw a crucial modern distinction: a road's main function is transportation, while streets facilitate public interaction.〔(Dictionary ).〕〔(Ask Yahoo! )〕 Examples of streets include pedestrian streets, alleys, and city-centre streets too crowded for road vehicles to pass. Conversely, highways and motorways are types of roads, but few would refer to them as streets.〔(Road vs Street ) at Using English forum.〕〔(Avenue vs Street ) at Using English forum.〕
==Etymology==
The word ''street'' has its origins in the Latin ''strata'' (meaning "paved road" - abbreviation from ''via strata''〔History of English, Jonathan Culpeper, Routledge 1997, p. 2〕); it is thus related to ''stratum'' and ''stratification''. Ancient Greek ''Stratos'' means army; Greeks originally built roads to move their armies. Old English applied the word to Roman roads in Britain such as Ermine Street, Watling Street, etc. Later it acquired a dialectical meaning of "straggling village", which were often laid out on the verges of Roman roads and these settlements often became named Stretton. In the Middle Ages, a ''road'' was a way people travelled, with ''street'' applied specifically to paved ways.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Online Etymology )〕
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