Streetwards
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Toward the street. not-comparable
"It was a large front room on the first floor, over a chandler's shop in an old-fashioned house in Montague Street, Whitechapel. Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square."
Example
More examples"It was a large front room on the first floor, over a chandler's shop in an old-fashioned house in Montague Street, Whitechapel. Its shape was peculiar—an oblong stretching streetwards, interrupted in one of the longer walls by a square."
Etymology
From street + -wards.
More for "streetwards"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.