Any other kinds of roads can be accepted too.
2007-02-12 16:29:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Well, a boulevard used to rather specifically mean a broad two-way roadway which is divided by a rather broad and scenic grassy area, often lined with trees.
Avenues and streets are often used together, with one of them running perpendicular to the other, as in much of NYC.
2007-02-12 16:41:36 · answer #1 · answered by and_y_knot 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the United States, there are no real legal definitions of words like Street, Avenue or Boulevard. Cities and subdivisions around the country have a wide variety of uses of these words, including others like "lane" or "park" or "way", or "road", or "route" or "path" . Some names are chosen to imply the address is in the countryside; others are named depending on state or local customs and how they differentiate different addresses. (I live in a city that has numerical streets AND avenues, in different parts of the city. Somebody is always making a mistake in addresses. I don't know how the Post Office handles all the mis-sent letters.)
2007-02-13 00:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by JOHN B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traditional definitions:
A boulevard is a broad city street, often tree-lined and landscaped.
A street is a public thoroughfare or walkway in a city or town with with a sidewalk or sidewalks.
An avenue is broad roadway lined with trees.
However, today, a street is defined by many municipal/metropolitan communities as " a public thoroughfare (avenue, boulevard, street, lane)or space ... deemed or dedicated for public use.
Most thesaurus' list as synonyms to street: avenue, roadway, boulevard, lane,
In summary, today there does not appear to be much if any difference in the use of the terms.
2007-02-13 00:55:42 · answer #3 · answered by ML 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Historically, an avenue is a wide street and a boulevard is a street lined with trees.
These days I think they are probably used interchangeably.
2007-02-13 00:40:20 · answer #4 · answered by Neil 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in most places streets run one direction (like north to south) and avenues run a different direction (like east to west),boulevard is a scenic route
2007-02-13 00:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by eddie mac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've asked the SAME exact question. The frequent answer I received was the paves distance.
2007-02-13 00:33:10 · answer #6 · answered by Answerz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard that it depends on the popularity of the street.
example:
AVE= VERY POPULAR
ST.=NOT THAT POPULAR
SO ON AND SO FORT
2007-02-13 00:38:16 · answer #7 · answered by ~*Marie~* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ave- avenue
st-street
blvd-boulevard
all synonyms
2007-02-13 00:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by thepinkpipster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No difference at all...
2007-02-13 00:33:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋