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   avenue

   /ˈavɪnjuː/

   noun

   • 1. a broad road in a town or city, typically having trees at regular intervals along its sides: "tree-lined avenues surround the hotel"
   • ▪ a thoroughfare running at right angles to the streets in a city laid out on a grid pattern: North American "7th Avenue"
   • ▪ a tree-lined approach to a country house or similar building: British "an avenue of limes" Similar roadstreetthoroughfareboulevardwaybroadwayhighway
   • 2. a way of approaching a problem or making progress towards something: "three possible avenues of research suggested themselves" Similar linepathdirectionroutemethodapproachcourse of action

   Word Origin early 17th century (in avenue (sense 2)): from French, feminine past participle of avenir ‘arrive, approach’, from Latin advenire, from ad- ‘towards’ + venire ‘come’.

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